1. Do you not see the opposite of frailty and weakness is sinlessness? 2Innocence is strength, and nothing else is strong. 3The sinless cannot fear, for sin of any kind is weakness. 4The show of strength attack would use to cover frailty conceals it not, for how can the unreal be hidden? 5No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has. 6Belief in enemies is therefore the belief in weakness, and what is weak is not the Will of God. 7Being opposed to it, it is God’s “enemy.” 8And God is feared as an opposing will.
2. How strange indeed becomes this war against yourself! 2You will believe that everything you use for sin can hurt you and become your enemy. 3And you will fight against it, and try to weaken it because of this; and you will think that you succeeded, and attack again. 4It is as certain you will fear what you attack as it is sure that you will love what you perceive as sinless. 5He walks in peace who travels sinlessly along the way love shows him. 6For love walks with him there, protecting him from fear. 7And he will see only the sinless, who can not attack.
3. Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil. 2The innocent are safe because they share their innocence. 3Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. 4And what seemed harmful now stands shining in their innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love. 5They share the strength of love because they looked on innocence. 6And every error disappeared because they saw it not. 7Who looks for glory finds it where it is. 8Where could it be but in the innocent?
4. Let not the little interferers pull you to littleness. 2There can be no attraction of guilt in innocence. 3Think what a happy world you walk, with truth beside you! 4Do not give up this world of freedom for a little sigh of seeming sin, nor for a tiny stirring of guilt’s attraction. 5Would you, for all these meaningless distractions, lay Heaven aside? 6Your destiny and purpose are far beyond them, in the clean place where littleness does not exist. 7Your purpose is at variance with littleness of any kind. 8And so it is at variance with sin.
5. Let us not let littleness lead God’s Son into temptation. 2His glory is beyond it, measureless and timeless as eternity. 3Do not let time intrude upon your sight of him. 4Leave him not frightened and alone in his temptation, but help him rise above it and perceive the light of which he is a part. 5Your innocence will light the way to his, and so is yours protected and kept in your awareness. 6For who can know his glory, and perceive the little and the weak about him? 7Who can walk trembling in a fearful world, and realize that Heaven’s glory shines on him?
6. Nothing around you but is part of you. 2Look on it lovingly, and see the light of Heaven in it. 3So will you come to understand all that is given you. 4In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle and shine, and everything you once thought sinful now will be reinterpreted as part of Heaven. 5How beautiful it is to walk, clean and redeemed and happy, through a world in bitter need of the redemption that your innocence bestows upon it! 6What can you value more than this? 7For here is your salvation and your freedom. 8And it must be complete if you would recognize it.