I want the peace of God.
To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything. If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.
To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams. For no one means these words who wants illusions, and who therefore seeks the means which bring illusions. He has looked on them, and found them wanting. Now he seeks to go beyond them, recognizing that another dream would offer nothing more than all the others. Dreams are one to him. And he has learned their only difference is one of form, for one will bring the same despair and misery as do the rest.
It is this one intent [to share the Will of God] we seek today, uniting our desires with the need of every heart, the call of every mind, the hope that lies beyond despair, the love attack would hide, the brotherhood that hate has sought to sever, but which still remains as God created it. With Help like this beside us, can we fail today as we request the peace of God be given us? (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185,W-pI.185.1;5;14. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)
Everyone in the world wants the peace of God. We want to remember our true Self, which dwells in God’s peace. And yet this seems to be an impossible dream, a utopia beyond our reach. This is because we have chosen a dream of specialness and limitation. We believe that specialness will offer us more than everything, more than the limitless Love and eternal peace of our Creator. This is the belief that gives the ego’s dream priority in our mind. But this dream can only offer empty images that have no meaning because they are not real.
It is impossible for the oneness of Love to be divided so that some may have more and others less. So while we believe we want this dream, we seek for reality that cannot be found in the dream that denies the Reality of God.
Today we choose to follow the Voice for God and accept Its lessons that teach us what is true and what is false, what is real and what is unreal. As we learn to recognize illusions for what they are, our inner Guide will help us look past meaningless illusions to remember the peace of God is ours now.
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