Living A Course in Miracles — Receiving the Gift of Peace

I Rest in God

Robert: My heart is filled with gratitude. I have the means to walk past all thoughts and images of fear and limitation. I cannot lose it because the means is in my mind. God goes with me wherever I go. His Voice is ever present, ready to offer me the gift of complete release. I need only be willing to release my fearful and limiting images to the Holy Spirit to receive His vision in its place.

Christ’s Vision shows me that only Love is real. It shows me that what I thought might harm me is not real and cannot have a real effect on the certainty that God placed in me as part of Himself. I rest in this certainty, content and at peace. I rest in God.

Mary: I rest in God. This is the most important thing for me to remember as I go through each day. I rest in God. When I remember this, it changes everything for me. When I forget this, I get caught up in the stories of the world and make them real in my mind.

I rest in God. This is my saving grace. It is so simple, so compact. When I am willing to remember, I get relaxed. I soften. I hand over the thoughts that I am making real in my mind in the moment. I rest in God. What a beautiful gift I give myself when I am willing to remember these simple four words.

As I am willing to remember, I am given in the moment all that I need to be truly helpful in the present moment. This is my job today and every day: To remember that I rest in God eternally. I still am eternal Spirit, as God created me.

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Trust in God’s Plan

Robert: By outward appearances, I am in a place of more uncertainty than I can remember. I have no idea what the future holds. I do not know what the form of my service will look like in the future.

I have come to see this state as a great blessing. Even though the future seems more uncertain than ever, I feel greater peace than I have ever felt. I know what to do today, right now. The future is in God’s Hands. What could be more certain than that? In His Hands, the future can only bring the blessings of perfect happiness and perfect peace.

Fear thoughts about the future do cross my mind, but I am increasingly able to quickly pass them on to Holy Spirit and let them go. Occasionally a “big one” comes along that takes a little longer for me to let go. I have great gratitude for what I have learned through practicing the lessons and the principles of A Course in Miracles. It has brought me to a deeper level of peace.

My five year plan is to follow Holy Spirit’s plan every day in the present moment. Nothing more, nothing less. Peace comes with remembering what’s my job and what’s not my job. It is not my job to make any plans on my own. It is my job to have an open mind and heart to follow Holy Spirit’s plan. That’s all.

This seems to take a lot of trust. But it’s not that I don’t already have the trust. The trust is always in me because I was created with it. Trust only seems hard because I have believed in illusions, which are inherently unstable and untrustworthy. That experience fosters doubt. Doubt is simply the effect of trying to bring the past to the present. Forgiveness is the way to release doubt. Forgiveness comes with the practice of turning over my mistaken beliefs to the Holy Spirit for His gentle correction.

Today I know what I am to do. That is enough. I am grateful that the Holy Spirit, my Self, is my strength and my Guide. I need nothing else.

Holy Spirit to Mary: Today, choose peace. When ego thoughts come up, hand them over to the Giver of peace. If you are not feeling peaceful, you have not yet handed some unforgiving thought over to peace. This is your job today. Doing this consistently through the day puts you in a state of grace. This is where you are truly happy.

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