August's Theme: Vision of Christ

“The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon.” W-313.1:4-5



Prayer for the Month

Lesson 313 - Now let a new perception come to me.

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us.

Lesson 349

Today I let Christ's vision look upon
All things for me and judge them not, but give
Each one a miracle of love instead.

So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek. For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own. It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. Father, Your gifts are mine. Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.

Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return to Him.

(T=Text, W=Workbook, M=Manual)

READINGS
(For both the in person study in Madison, WI and the Tuesday Drop-in Phone/Skype Study)

Week of:

7/31/11 - Month's Prayer Lesson:
Lesson 313 - Now let a new perception come to me.

Reading: Chapter 12, Section VI. The Vision of Christ

8/7/11 - Lesson 158 - Today I learn to give as I receive.
Workbook for Students, Part II. 6. What is the Christ?
Clarification of Terms, 5. Jesus - Christ

8/14/11 - Text, Chapter 13, Section V. The Two Emotions

8/21/11 - Text, Chapter 13, VI. Finding the Present

8/28/11 - Text, Chapter 31, Section VII. The Savior's Vision