T. 26. VIII. 6 – 9. Jesus: “The working out of all correction takes no time at all. Yet the acceptance of the working out can seem to take forever! The change of purpose the Holy Spirit brought to your relationship has in it all effects that you will need to see. They can be experienced now. Why wait for them to ‘unfold in time,’ and fear they may not come at all, although they are already here?
Yet this illusion has a cause which, though untrue, must be already in your mind. And this illusion is but one effect that the cause engenders, and one form in which its outcome is perceived. This interval in time, when retribution is expected as the form in which ‘the good’ appears, is but one aspect of the little space that lies between you and your brother, unforgiven still.
Be not content with some idea of ‘future happiness.’ It has no meaning, and is not your just reward! For you have cause for freedom now. What profits freedom in a prisoner’s form? Why should deliverance be disguised as death? Delay is senseless, and the ‘reasoning’ that would maintain effects of present cause must be delayed until a future time, is merely a denial of the fact that consequence and cause must come as one.