Day 63
11. HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD?
1 This is a question everyone must ask. Certainly peace seems to be impossible here. Yet the Word of God promises other things that seem impossible, as well as this. His Word has promised peace. It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man’s inheritance. The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. God’s Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. But it is true that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted. What the world is, is but a fact. You cannot choose what this should be. But you can choose how you would see it. Indeed, you must choose this.
This paragraph reassures us of God’s promises in the face of a world that seems to be the opposite of all He promises. More often than not, I fail to see a peaceful world, and yet God says that this is possible. God loves the world and I have to wonder how this could be. I don’t love the world and often wish to be free of it. Obviously, there is a disconnect between what I see and what exists.
How do I get from the world I see to the world God loves? The world as it is a fact and cannot be changed, but how I see the world is variable and I can choose to see differently. I have already become very aware of how unreliable my vision is. I used to very often be depressed and when I was depressed I saw everything from a darkened and gloomy perspective. Then when the depression lifted, I saw things differently.
I used to have little regard for myself and everything that happened was colored by this low self-esteem. When I began to accept that nothing I do or say can determine my worth because that was established in my creation, the world I see changed. Where once I saw everything that happened as proof of my low self-worth, now I saw it as a school room with many opportunities to allow the Holy Spirit to help me choose God over ego.
A Course in Miracles has given me a very simple process to transform the world I see. It has given me the opportunity to perceive differently. Perception will never be truth, but it will get close if I allow about my mind to be healed through forgiveness. I am supposed to live a life of peace, joy, and happiness. If what I see does not create those effects then I am wrong about what I see. I ask the Holy Spirit to join me in the experience and to show me what He sees. I am asking for true Vision rather than ego vision.
I was listening to people talking about politics and it was making me feel irritable. I asked the Holy Spirit how to see this. He showed me that the irritation was not about the subject, or the people talking, but about my judgment and the meaning I was giving the conversation. Without that judgment it was just words, sometimes interesting, but just words. It’s amazing how quickly and dramatically the world changes when I let go of the meaning I give it.
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