VII. Looking Within, P 11
11 When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find peace, for by making it manifest you will see it. Its holy witnesses will surround you because you called upon them, and they will come to you. I have heard your call and I have answered it, but you will not look upon me nor hear the answer that you sought. That is because you do not yet want only that. Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that you do want only that. And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the real world together. Through the eyes of Christ, only the real world exists and only the real world can be seen. As you decide so will you see. And all that you see but witnesses to your decision.
Journal
As I decide that the peace of God is all that I want, I am also accepting my mission to extend peace. Then as I extend peace more and more often, I also increase my peace. It increases because as I see it manifested, I believe in it and I want it. Why am I not doing this all the time?
Why is it that I don’t hear His answer when I am the one that sought it? It is because it is not yet all that I want. Sometimes I want to be right. Sometimes I become afraid of the dark thoughts in my mind and I want to project guilt. Sometimes I become defensive. I cannot have any of these things and have peace. Peace must be all that I want, to always have peace.
Here is something I had to sit with. “Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that you do want only that. And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the real world together.” This is one of the passages that brings tears to my eyes even though I don’t completely understand it. I cannot truly understand it because I have not fully accepted it. I still sometimes pretend that what I see with the body’s eyes is reality and so I do not always see with Christ Vision.
I love Jesus so much that I long to see him within and I want to see him as with me and see us as part of the same Family of God. So I pay close attention to the world I see. If it is not a joyous and peaceful world, I know that it is not the real world. I know that I have lost sight of the truth and I make a new decision, and that decision for God becomes manifest in my life.
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