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Finding Peace of Mind

God is my refuge and security.

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. I live in God. In Him I find my ref­uge and my strength. In Him is my Identity. In Him is everlast­ing peace. And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 261, W-pII.261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

What do we believe is our identity? If we believe the body is our identity, we will seek to shelter the body. If we believe we are the Son of God, we will be certain of our safety in Him. There is no need to seek to shelter the Son of God, for he is eternally sheltered within His Love.

The Course is leading us on a gentle path of awakening from belief in a separate identity to an acceptance of our true Identity as God’s Love. As we let go of our insistence on separation, our fear subsides and our level of peace increases.

While the body seems to be our Home, it is important to let the Holy Spirit guide us on how to protect it. He will teach us what to do, where to go, what to say and think in a way that softens our investment in separation and helps us see past it to our safety in the changelessness of Love.

The Holy Spirit’s function is to lead us out of fear and into Love. We are not asked to deny our belief in the body as our identity. But we are encouraged to choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide rather than the ego, whose objective is always to foster guilt and increase fear.

Today we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, for we know He will guide us to peace of mind.

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