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Finding Our True Environment

I want the peace of God.

To say these words is nothing. ²But to mean these words is everything. ³If 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. ⁴Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed. ²He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. ³He cannot make a hell and think it real. ⁴He wants the peace of God, and it is given him. ⁵For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ²And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

No one who truly seeks the peace of God can fail to find it. ²For he merely asks that he deceive himself no longer by denying to himself what is God’s Will. ³Who can remain unsatisfied who asks for what he has already? ⁴Who could be unanswered who requests an answer which is his to give? ⁵The peace of God is yours. (A Course in Miracles, W-185.1:1–2:5;6:1-2;11. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking more peace. But our identification with the ego seems to make peace an impossible goal. The ego thrives on conflict. In fact it is afraid of peace and will do anything to distract us from finding the peace we seek.

To want the peace of God exclusively is to let go of any identification with the ego thought system of separation. We were created by the Source of peace to be held forever within Its presence. The peace we seek is already ours.

Today we acknowledge that we do not know the path to peace. And so we turn to the Guide in our mind Who was given us to lead us back to full remembrance of our eternal Identity in the peace of God. Of ourselves we do not know the way, but He does. We welcome His help as we remember we do not know the way on our own. We let Him show us the presence of peace that is our true environment. And we give thanks.

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