Robert:
Today we read in A Course in Miracles, “Consider but what you believe will comfort you, and bring you happiness. …One question should be asked of all of them, ‘Is this what I would have, in place of Heaven and the peace of God?’” (W-pI.185.8:4,8)
It is really helpful for me to look at the things in the world that I think will comfort me or make me happy. There are many things I used to think that I wanted or would make me happy that I no longer value. I am grateful that ACIM has helped me learn what is really valuable. Because I have let go of giving value to these things I can say I am in the happiest time of my life.
Yet there are still things in the world I think I need or want. When I don’t seem to have these, I don’t feel happy or at least my happiness and peace are limited. I experience varying degrees of impatience, frustration or disappointment if these things I want are not in my experience. I am clearly valuing these forms in place of Heaven and the peace of God.
So I may be saying I want the peace of God, but I am attempting to define the form in which this will appear. But Heaven and the peace of God are formless and limitless. To attempt to define them to fit within a form makes Heaven unknown to me, though it is all around me.
I have an opportunity today to move closer to knowing Heaven and the peace of God. Today I offer the things I think I want in this world to the Holy Spirit and ask for the strength of God in me to help me release them and open to the recognition of the Love that is in me and all around. That Love is Heaven. The strength of God in me will show me that those appealing forms have no value and I will recognize that the peace of God is all I really want.
Mary:
The truth is the peace and Love of God is What we all are. Right now the whole Sonship is in God and of God. We all are What God is because there is no separation and no division. This is the truth right now.
Today it is my opportunity to open to the truth that we are all the same universal Love and nothing else. We all rest in God and our dreams really mean nothing and do not matter. Returning to this truth is what today is for. Forgiving, or letting go of dreams, is all that time is for. Remembering that the peace of God is all I really want opens the gate. It just takes a little willingness to let the truth return to my mind. This is my practice for today.
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