Daily Inspiration

 

Returning Peace to Our Troubled Mind

²Reality is never frightening. ³It is impossible that it could upset me. ⁴Reality brings only perfect peace. ⁵When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up. ⁶The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality, and thus regard reality as an illusion. ⁷Nothing in God’s creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. ⁸I am always upset by nothing.

²I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. ³What, then, can I see as it is? ⁴Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. ⁵Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. ⁶Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.

²If I see nothing as it is now, it can truly be said that I see nothing. ³I can see only what is now. ⁴The choice is not whether to see the past or the present; the choice is merely whether to see or not. ⁵What I have chosen to see has cost me vision. ⁶Now I would choose again, that I may see. (A Course in Miracles, W-52.1:2-8;3:2-6;4:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 52 Insights.)

Whenever we are not experiencing perfect peace, it is because we are perceiving images caused by the wish for specialness. Differences are fearful because they make loss of love appear to be possible. Perception of differences depends on judgment to give them a semblance of meaning.

Yet what God has given us can never be lost. God is Love and all He creates is Love. He has created us, His Son, as everlasting Love. We claim our true Identity by forgiving or letting go of the wish for specialness. Each time we pause to step back from our judgments and offer them to the Holy Spirit for His correction, we open our mind to accept our true Self. Peace returns to our troubled mind.

 

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