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Choosing the Peace of God

³God’s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. ⁴Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. ⁵In this condition, peace cannot be found. ⁶Therefore, forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. ⁷More than this, given forgiveness there must be peace. ⁸For what except attack will lead to war? ⁹And what but peace is opposite to war? ¹⁰Here the initial contrast stands out clear and apparent. ¹¹Yet when peace is found, the war is meaningless. ¹²And it is conflict now that is perceived as nonexistent and unreal.

⁷Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real.

⁵In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours. ⁶Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. …⁹The Will of God is One and all there is. ¹⁰This is your heritage. …¹²God’s peace is the condition for His Will. ¹³Attain His peace, and you remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-20.3:3-12;5:7;6:5-6,9-10,12-13)

Whenever our peace of mind is disturbed, we can ask ourselves, “Do I want to keep this perception, or do I want the peace of God?” The choice is between maintaining guilt or forgiving the perception — letting it go.

The Holy Spirit is always present to help us let go of the guilt that is the cause of all fear and anger. When we forgive, the appearance of conflict disappears. Peace returns to the mind that thought it was alone and separate. We remember God’s Will is ours. We remember we are His Love.

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Letting God’s Love Replace the Void We Feel

How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Father, the truth belongs to me. ²My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. ³Can dreams content me? ⁴Can illusions bring me happiness? ⁵What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? ⁶I will accept no less than You have given me. ⁷I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. ⁸God’s Son must be as You created him.

Today we pass illusions by. ²And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear. (A Course in Miracles, W-272. See also ACIM Lesson 272 Insights.)

In the dream of separation, a feeling of dissatisfaction, a sense that something is missing, is endemic. The ego sends us on countless search missions guaranteed not to succeed. That “something” that seems to be missing is the Love of God the dream denies. All the dream can offer is forms of specialness as a substitute for Love.

These forms never satisfy, for they contain no reality. Only God’s Love is real. Only our acceptance of His Love will fill the void we feel. Yet this void is a lie. No matter what we have taught ourselves to the contrary, God’s Love is real and ours, now and forever. In His Love, we find the peace we believe we lost; we know our safety in the changelessness of His Love.

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God’s Gift of His Love Is Eternal

My sinlessness protects me from all harm.

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting love, freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance from suffering. ²And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness is given me. ³What must I do to know all this is mine? ⁴I must accept Atonement for myself, and nothing more. ⁵God has already done all things that need be done. ⁶And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to feel God’s Love protecting me from harm, to understand my Father loves His Son; to know I am the Son my Father loves.

You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am. ²I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for myself. ³Father, my dream is ended now. ⁴Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-337. See also ACIM Lesson 337 Insights.)

The dream of separation requires constant maintenance. Our time in the dream is cluttered with myriad activities requiring physical or mental activity. This is the doing we must be willing to stop. This is what the Course means when it says we need do nothing. As this lesson points out, all that ever needed to be done was done by God when He created His Son.

The purpose of what the ego directs us to do is to maintain the veil of separation. The ego is afraid of peace. It directs us on countless searches for nothingness in a form it tells us has value. We seek for special friendships, special trinkets, special possessions and celebrate special times in the life of the body. These are all searches to misdirect our attention away from our Source of happiness.

The practice of quieting our minds to let the peace of God within come forth is how we let go of our busy doing. This makes way for us to accept what God has already done. In this acceptance we remember the Love He gave us eternally. We remember our innocence because no harm can come from the gift of Love from God. Our sinlessness is an attribute of Love’s eternal oneness. In this changelessness, we are safe.

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