God’s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. In this condition, peace cannot be found. Therefore, forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. More than this, given forgiveness there must be peace. For what except attack will lead to war? And what but peace is opposite to war? Here the initial contrast stands out clear and apparent. Yet when peace is found, the war is meaningless. And it is conflict now that is perceived as nonexistent and unreal.
Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained.
God’s peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-20.3:3-12;5:7-8;6:12-13)
It is helpful to remember the many forms in which anger can appear: Depression, worry, guilt, shame, even insisting that the body is real and seeing a brother’s identity as a body. These are all forms that reflect belief in being separate, which comes from being angry at God for not giving us special love. He would not give us more than everything.
Thus any time we feel concern, worry, sadness, irritation, frustration or upset of any kind, the only meaningful response is to forgive it. To forgive it, we must ask for help from beyond the thought system that made the disturbing circumstance. We need to turn over the perception that triggered the response to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His help to see the truth beyond the perception.
As we accept His Light that reveals the truth, the perception of conflict fades away and we see in its place the eternal Light of Love That was always present, only hidden by a false idea. This practice of forgiveness is the key to finding the peace of God.
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