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What Brings True and Lasting Comfort?

To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams. For no one means these words who wants illusions, and who therefore seeks the means which bring illusions. He has looked on them, and found them wanting. Now he seeks to go beyond them, recognizing that another dream would offer nothing more than all the others. Dreams are one to him. And he has learned their only difference is one of form, for one will bring the same despair and misery as do the rest.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him in such a way that he can not mistake it, if his asking is sincere. But if he asks without sincerity, there is no form in which the lesson will meet with acceptance and be truly learned. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185, W-pI.185.5-6). See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.

What do we think will comfort us? We need to look how we answer this. Do we think comfort will come by having attention given us by a certain someone? Do we think we will be comforted by attaining a particular status or by having more money or living in a certain place?

If we answer yes to questions like these, we are looking to forms to bring us comfort, to make us happy. But forms are empty, having no meaning of their own. If we truly mean we want the peace of God, we must overlook all forms to welcome the formless, eternal Love that is God’s gift to us as our one Self.

When we are not at peace, it is because we have judged against what we perceive is our situation or relationship. We are believing that if we can somehow change the form to our liking, we will be happy. We are looking for comfort in a form, but a form cannot bring true and lasting peace.

Today we will redirect our attention to seek beyond form to accept God’s gift of perfect peace.

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