I will be still an instant and go home.
This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. ³A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. ⁴Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown.
We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.
When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice.
⁹Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 182, W-182.1:1-4;3;8:1;12:9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)
The ego fills our mind with chatter. Its thoughts are always some form of repetition of the past. Even its thoughts about the future are built upon thoughts of the past. Neither the past nor the stories the ego makes up about the future are real. But as long as we think these thoughts have value or meaning, we are unaware of the eternal Love in the present moment. The present lasts forever so the future can only be known in the present instant. The future is Love just as Love is now. Only Love is real.
Today we practice disengaging from the ego’s thoughts by reminding ourselves they have no value. They offer nothing that we truly want. We step back and make way for the Voice for Love to speak to us. It speaks to us of our safety and our eternal unity with our Creator. It reminds us of our true Home so we can bring this memory with us while we walk the world in peace and happiness.
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