1. 1Loss is not loss when properly perceived. 2Pain is impossible. 3There is no grief with any cause at all. 4And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. 5This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. 6Then to be considered seri­ously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. 7I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. 8And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

2. 1Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. 2Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.