The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is
my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek,
my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide
where I am not at home.I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And
in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within
my heart, which witnesses to God Himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 205 & 208, W-pII.205:2-3;208:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 205 & 208 Insights.)
The world we seem to live in is not our Home. Peace cannot be found in the world we perceive. But peace is already in us because it is a attribute of our true Self, the Son of God. When we declare that peace is our one goal, the aim of all our living here, we are affirming our focus on identifying with our one Self instead of the image of a separate self made by the ego.
The search for peace is inevitable in the dream of a world of separation and conflict. The ego answers that search with directions that lead nowhere, for its goal is always to seek and not find.
We find the peace we seek by following the Holy Spirit’s direction. He guides us to recognize that the world offers nothing we really want. With that recognition we become willing to be still and let the peace that is already ours be shown to us. The only meaningful purpose we have in the world is to let go of our identification with the images of the world and accept the one Self we share with everyone as God’s one Son.
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