 The Miracles Live. We're moving along here with Jesus in the mind training in this beautiful year we have to extend the love and learn to forgive as Jesus teaches us how to forgive. And today is the 12th day of January, so we're on lesson number 12. And what a joy, what a joy. That's what we're here for, is to really, really, really go into the love. So today, lesson 12, I am upset because I see a meaningless world. The importance of this idea lies in the fact that it contains a correction for a major perceptual distortion. You'd think that what upsets you is a frightening world or a sad world or a violent world or an insane world. All these attributes are given it by you. The world is meaningless in itself. These exercises are done with eyes open. Look around you this time quite slowly. Try to pace yourself so that the slow shifting of your glance from one thing to another involves a fairly constant time interval. Do not allow the time of the shift to become markedly longer or shorter, but try instead to keep a measured, even tempo throughout. What you see does not matter. You teach yourself this as you give whatever your glance rests on equal attention and equal time. This is a beginning step in learning to give them all equal value. As you look about you, say to yourself, I think I see a fearful world, a dangerous world, a hostile world, a sad world, a wicked world, a crazy world, and so on. Using whatever descriptive terms happen to occur to you if terms which seem positive rather than negative occur to you include them. For example, you might think of a good world or a satisfying world. If such terms occur to you, use them along with the rest. You may not understand why these nice adjectives belong in these exercises, but remember that a good world implies a bad one and a satisfying world implies an unsatisfying one. All terms which cross your mind are suitable subject for today's exercises. Their seeming quality does not matter. Be sure that you do not alter the time intervals between applying today's idea to what you think is pleasant and what you think is unpleasant. For the purposes of these exercises, there is no difference between them. At the end of the practice period, Ed, but I am upset because I see a meaningless world. What is meaningless is neither good or bad. Why then should a meaningless world upset you? If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy, but because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. It is this you see in it. It is this that is meaningless in truth. Beneath your words is written the word of God. The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see his. That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises. Three or four times is enough for practicing the idea for today. Nor should the practice periods exceed a minute. You may find even this too long. Terminate the exercises whenever you experience a sense of strength. I am upset because I see a meaningless world. So let's just practice that lightly today. For a minute or less throughout the day, and we're setting up a beautiful, beautiful experience as we go deeper and deeper with this. This is absolutely amazing, transforming our perception of the world. I think of Victor Franco in Nazi Germany, his book Man's Search for Meaning, where even in the conditions of concentration camp in Nazi Germany, it was actually Jesus, I think really inspiring him in his mind to understand that his state of mind was his decision, even in what seemed to be the most dire circumstances. So let's practice with the everyday circumstances. We wanna be happy constantly, so we wanna have joy and glee and bliss and inner peace in a very constant way. So we're gonna really go for it. So remember, a minute or less throughout the day, I am upset because I see a meaningless world. God bless you.