⁶In quietness is [the peace of God] acknowledged universally. ⁷For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.
Sit quietly and close your eyes. ²The light within you is sufficient. ³It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. ⁴Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. ⁵They know the way. ⁶For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.
We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. ²We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God.
…we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. ²We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. ³For it is we who make the world as we would have it. ⁴Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. ⁵And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:
⁶The peace of God is shining in me now.
⁷Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
and let me bless them with the light in me. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.5:6–7;6;9:1-2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)
We do not have to qualify to receive God’s peace. It is already given, and for eternity. But we do have to accept His gift.
The ego thought system is the effect of rejecting God’s gift of all His Love. Love cannot be found in the ego-made world, though it sends us on a constant quest to seek Love where it cannot be found. Then, using its key tool of separation, it projects the lack of Love on God. It claims to be the victim of God’s denial, but it is a lie. The ego is solely responsible for our experience of lack of Love.
Here we are learning the way to undo this experience, to undo the ego. Each moment that we step back and welcome the peace of God loosens the ego’s influence on our experience. As we accept His peace, we open our mind to His Love, His healing messages, His gentle direction in the way of peace. We choose peace today, for we would remember we live in God.
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