The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious. Why else would you identify with it? Surely you realize the ego is at war with God. Certain it is it has no enemy. Yet just as certain is its fixed belief it has an enemy that it must overcome and will succeed.
Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace to the remembrance of God, still shining in your quiet mind. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1;8:9)
If we want to remember God and our Self, we must welcome God’s peace. His peace is already ours, but we must be willing to step back from the seeming conflicts in our world and allow ourselves to remember the peace that is always within us.
The ego is threatened by peace and will always come up with reasons for why we don’t have time or shouldn’t take time to go to peace. The maintenance of conflict is essential to the ego’s conviction that it is real. But as we are told here, the ego is an illusion, nothing, and conflict between illusions is conflict between nothing.
Our belief in the ego thought system of separation makes conflict seem real and defense seem justified. But when we are willing to welcome peace, we make way for the Holy Spirit to show us the unity of Love that lies behind the veil of conflict. Here is where all problems are quietly resolved. Here, in the peace of God, is where we remember that we remain as God created us—eternally Love and eternally loving.
Today we dedicate to peace first, that we may remember God.
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