Miracles News

January-March, 2007

I Want the Peace of God

by Rev. Michael L. Ciavarella

This article was inspired by Lesson 185 in A Course In Miracles, Workbook for Students.

I don’t want a house anymore. I want the peace of God. That’s all I really want. And yes. I am sincere in this desire. It is not simply words to say. It is what I really want. It is what everyone really wants, isn’t it?

I don’t want a house anymore. Oh, it would be nice to have a house, but holding a desire like that is, in the long run, buying into the illusion. It is a compromise that would spoil the whole need for my wanting the peace of God and that’s what I really want.

I don’t want a house anymore. Besides, wanting the peace of God is truly home anyway. Isn’t that where we reside? This world is all smoke and mirrors. This is just a dream — an illusion of what we think would bring us peace and happiness. All the while, our peace and happiness resides with God. I want the peace of God. That’s where I’ll find home.

I don’t want a house anymore. What a poor substitute for what God has created for us. There’s no place like home and I’ll not find it here. A home of concrete and wood cannot take the place for the awesome mansion that God has prepared for me. Jesus told us that there are mansions that are prepared for the Sonship. No home that some brother prepared in this world can hold a blessed candle to even a shack that God may have created. I want the peace of God.

I don’t want a house anymore. That would be a special relationship with brick and mortar or wood and aluminum. Why would I want to carry on a special relationship when I can have the genuine article made by my own Father? Even the wanting is a special relationship with my desire. No. I want the peace of God and nothing more.

I don’t want a house anymore. I want the peace of God. I surrender my desires and my will to the Holy Spirit. He is the one that is pointing out the error of my ways. He is the one that is leading me to my real Home. I offer my mistaken thought pattern to Him; allow Him to heal my thoughts and desires; allow Him to put me into the path that will ultimately bring me to an awakened place and find that I have never left my Father’s arms and the Home He has made for me.

I don’t want a house anymore. In fact, there is nothing this world offers that I want anymore. I’ll tell you what I really want. It is not a special relationship. It is not something that will support the illusion. It is something of real substance. It is something that holds all of the meaning of the universe and more. I want this more than life itself. I want the peace of God.

No. I don’t want a house anymore.

Rev. Michael L. Ciavarella is a Pathways of Light minister living in Sioux City, Iowa. Read more of his inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site.

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