Journey Without Distance
The Epilogue

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain.

Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again.
Yet is the ending sure.
No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do.
When you forget, remember that you walk with Him
and with His Word upon your heart.
Who could despair when Hope like this is his?
Illusions of despair may seem to come,
but learn how not to be deceived by them.
Behind each one there is reality, and there is God.
Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions,
when His Love is but an instant
farther on the road, where all illusions end?
The end is sure and guaranteed by God.

Who stands before a lifeless image
when a step away the Holy of the Holies
opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?

You are a stranger here.
But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself.
Ask but my help to roll the stone away,
and it is done according to His Will.

We have begun the journey.
Long ago the end was written in the stars
and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray
that held it safe within eternity
and through all time as well.
And holds it still, unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable.

Be not afraid.
We only start again an ancient journey
long ago begun that but seems new.
We have begun again upon a road we traveled on before
and lost our way a little while.
And now we try again.
Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now.

Look up and see His Word among the stars,
where He has set your name along with His.
Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide
but God would have you see.
Let us wait here in silence,
and kneel down an instant in our gratitude
to Him Who called to us
and helped us hear His Call.
And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him.

Now we are sure we do not walk alone.
For God is here,
and with Him all our brothers.
Now we know that we will never lose the way again.

The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant,
Though it seems to be unsung forever.
What is here begun will grow in life
and strength and hope,
until the world is still an instant
and forgets all that the dream of sin had made of it.

Let us go out and meet the newborn world,
knowing that Christ has been reborn in it,
and that the holiness of this rebirth will last forever.

We had lost our way but He has found it for us.
Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us
to celebrate salvation and the end of all we thought we made.

The morning star of this new day looks on a different world
where God is welcomed and His Son with Him.
We, who complete Him, offer thanks to Him,
as He gives thanks to us.

The Son is still and,
in the quiet God has given him,
enters his home and is at peace at last.

You may also listen to the Epilogue read on our ACIM Speaks podcast.