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51 Nothing I see means anything.
I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me.
I do not understand anything I see.
These thoughts do not mean anything.
I am never upset for the reason I think.

MT: What great undoing you offer, JC! I am open to the possibility of a new seeing, a new meaning, a new understanding. Today, fill my mind with the Thought of God. I pledge to relinquish upsets, resentment and attack.
JC: The stars look down from the firmament to shimmer on you. Wherever you walk is the ground made holy by your forgiveness. The peace of God surrounds you wherever you go, whatever you do. You are the holy Son of God.

52 I am upset because I see what is not there.
I see only the past.
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I see nothing as it is now.
My thoughts do not mean anything.

MT: Don't know what to say. I think I know these lessons. The world is illusion and does not exist, so when I get all worked up about any situation, I'm really doing nothing.
JC: You are misusing the mind, which should be free to dart like a hummingbird. Instead you chain it to your imaginary prison walls.
MT: I'm beginning to realize how much effort it takes to maintain the world, just as at one point I realized how much effort is involved in maintaining bad posture.
JC: Yet people have given their lives for this.
MT: I am waiting for you to tell me, "Go and sin no more."
JC: Go and soar, free as an eagle in the rising sun of a new day.

52 I am upset because I see what is not there.
I see only the past.
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I see nothing as it is now.
My thoughts do not mean anything.

MT: I was seeing something that wasn't there last night, JC, and I let it rob me of sleep. The victim stance cropped up yet again! But this morning, I decided to ask for what I wanted (or thought I wanted) instead of seeing myself as deprived. To my surprise, the world generously offered, "you can have it, and it will cost you nothing." So much for my upset! I'll have fun going shopping with my grandson.

Now, I want to see things as they are now. I want the eternal now, not the past and not a projected future. I pray to be released from my attachment to a timeline. I pray to be released from the self I made with my meaningless thoughts. Let me now be with God in paradise.

54 I have no neutral thoughts. My thoughts can attract sickness and death, fear and loathing, or attract God's world of forgiveness and joy. I am making a choice moment by moment, and what I think I will receive.

I see no neutral things. With the ego, I see ideas out there, the ideas of my fevered and restless mind. With God, the resplendent beauty of Creation opens up to me.

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. By seeing with God, I help others see with God. My mission becomes to reawaken the memory of God in myself and my companions on the journey.

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. There is no selfish joy! There seem to be selfish pleasures, but joy is One.

I am determined to see. Today I see perfect beauty in the workings of the Universe. I see that there are no accidents on the journey. I see that You walk with me in perfect holiness.

55 I am determined to see things differently. Especially myself! Enough of this terminal uniqueness! I will see myself as the logical extension of God, along with those I thought were better or worse, richer or poorer, ugly or beautiful. We are One.

What I see is a form of vengeance. Striking, JC, to place "vengeance" next to "seeing". So when I give substance to the energies around me and make them into things, I am making them into my enemy. I am making up germs and cancer cells and Jack the Rippers.

I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts. I want to SEE. Today I use my mind as God would, and I see a world healed and whole.

I do not perceive my own best interests. Talk about humility! I stubbornly hold onto what I think are my best interests, and now you're telling me I'm out to lunch. I can see in others that they sabotage themselves and create havoc in their lives, but me? I am still convinced that I know what's best for me. Help me to true humility, where I accept God's guidance every step of the way.

I do not know what anything is for. So I fight the world I see through a glass darkly, not knowing that everything is for my own best interests. I demand that the world change to suit me, and I enlist others to help me change the world so I'll be happy at last. But I do not know what anything means. Today I ask to see what things are for, and I open my ears to hear the truth.

56 My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. Here's how I attack myself, like a cancer in the body. I make up a hostile world which then attacks me, so at least I am right! I get to sit in my small chair in my small house, muttering curses on the whole world.

Above all else I want to see. This way of living in the world doesn't work. But instead of fighting evil thoughts in me, I will focus on searching for a better way. I will be part of the solution, even when this better way is obscured by clouds.

Above all else I want to see differently. The ego world seems locked up, with no way out. This is where prayer and surrender comes in. I throw in the towel and say, God, ball's in your court! The next shot is yours!

God is in everything I see. Instead of evil men and evil deeds, I get to see the boundless, beneficent energy of the Universe. I see God, the God that we so badly misused. We played with sharp-edged children's toys, but now we are grown. It is time for a change.

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. Here's the next step: to accept that God is Life, and my mind is made of Life. Without God --which is an impossibility-- I would cease to exist. I thought I was a separate little egg of consciousness at the mercy of forces outside of its control, a small battered canoe in an endless roiling ocean. Let me now surrender to this new way of seeing that will change forever that which I thought I was.

57 I am not the victim of the world I see. As a kid, I made up a phrase for the world-as-enemy: "the tyranny of inanimate objects." I would go into a rage over a stuck piano key. The anger was almost unbearable, such that I wanted to break something. How good to know now that this was, still is, insane behavior.

I have invented the world I see. Not only is the world and everybody in it completely neutral, it is entirely of my making! You are suggesting that I step out of perception entirely. Scary thought. What would I hold onto?

There is another way of looking at the world. There is no fortress to defend. My Self is ruler of the universe. If I made up threats and wars and diseases, I can also make peace. I can decide for God from this moment on.

I could see peace instead of this. What a wonderful feeling these words wash over me! I am the source of peace wherever I go, whatever I do.

My mind is part of God's. I am very holy. God is a vast pie of consciousness, and I a part of it. I think with God, I am with God, I am God walking the Earth.

58 My holiness envelops everything I see. My holiness goes forth and wraps around the objects and people around me. When I allow the Light of God in, I have the Light of God to give out.

My holiness blesses the world. Including those I deemed undeserving, those who reject the spiritual path I'm on, them that I imagined hurt me, judged me, asked me to be different than I was so they would be pleased. Yes, all of them. There is no selfish enlightenment.

There is nothing my holiness cannot do. It can say "thank you God for this day" or it can move a mountain, heal the sick, and raise the dead.

My holiness is my salvation -- not sacrifice. The "need" for sacrifice is over. I give with joy and I accept without guilt.

I am blessed as a Son of God. The decades of orphanhood are over. I sit at the table the Father prepared for me and drink from the cup of holiness. How great is that?

59 God goes with me wherever I go. God is a verb, not a noun. God is motion, aliveness, change, continuation, reproduction, evolution. When I think, that is God. When I eat, that is God. I cannot escape God, and why would I hallucinate doing so? Only utter insanity would say: God has left me. The Life in which those words exist is God.

God is my strength. Vision is His gift. This day I will understand eternity, and be One with Him who is my Source.

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. How did I ever dream I was separate, alone in a hostile universe? How could a drop of seawater think itself attacked by the ocean?

God is the light in which I see. God-light became the illusion of darkness in this crazy world of mine. Now I claim for myself the lifting of the veil, that I may see.

God is the mind with which I think. When thinking is happening, there God is. When walking is happening, there God is. When anger is happening, there God is. When sadness is happening, there God is. So how do I want to manifest God in my life today?

60 God is the love in which I forgive. God does not blame, any more than the sun blames him who hides in a cave.

God is the strength in which I trust. Should I trust the body, I am trusting in that which is fleeting and temporary, and anxiety is sure to follow--what happens when the body is gone? On the other hand, Martin Luther, a humble monk, could stand against the apparent might of the Catholic Church, because he knew well that "A mighty fortress is our God."

There is nothing to fear. I forgive, not because I was wronged, but because forgiveness is my ticket out of fear. I forgive out of selfishness!

God's voice speaks to me all through the day. Guidance is a constant, a thread that runs through every action of mine, every move I consider. I can turn a deaf ear, but guidance is there whenever I am willing to listen.

I am sustained by the love of God. Let me remember this today. I thought I was sustained by praise from others. I thought I was sustained by a fat bank account. I thought I was sustained by pretty things and expensive travel and a slick new car. But I am sustained by the love of God, the Giver of life.

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