Daily Inspiration

Finding the Peace of God Within

Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. ²Specialness always makes comparisons. ³It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for, and keeping clear in sight, all lacks it can perceive. ⁴This does it seek, and this it looks upon. ⁵And always whom it thus diminishes would be your savior, had you not chosen to make of him a tiny measure of your specialness instead. ⁶Against the littleness you see in him you stand as tall and stately, clean and honest, pure and unsullied, by comparison with what you see. ⁷Nor do you understand it is yourself that you diminish thus.

Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace.

⁵The special messages the special hear convince them they are different and apart; each in his special sins and “safe” from love, which does not see his specialness at all. ⁶Christ’s vision is their “enemy,” for it sees not what they would look upon, and it would show them that the specialness they think they see is an illusion.

What would they see instead? ²The shining radiance of the Son of God, so like his Father that the memory of Him springs instantly to mind. …⁵This is the only “cost” of truth: You will no longer see what never was, nor hear what makes no sound. ⁶Is it a sacrifice to give up nothing, and to receive the Love of God forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-24.II.1:1–2:1;5:5–6:2,5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We, the Sons of God, are His one Creation. He sees all His Sons as One, eternally united with Himself. The wish for specialness is the wish to disconnect from our Source and claim a unique identity. This made-up image of a separate self competes for attention and status in a world of conflict. Peace cannot be found in conflict.

There is a place in our mind where peace remains undisturbed. It is the home of our true Self, which remains connected with our Father’s Love. When we forgive and lay down our quest for specialness, we will remember that we rest in the safety of God’s Love now and forever. There is nothing else to seek.

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