September 22st 2014 Lesson 188
The peace of God is shining in me now.
- Intention: To remember that the peace of God is in us now; we need not wait for heaven. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. The light of God is in us now and can never be lost.
- Practice:
Sit in silence at least twice today and let your mind experience the
peace of God that shines within you now and from your heart extends around the world. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give, and you who have received.
- Application: Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself. These thoughts you think with Him. They recognize their home. And they point surely to their Source, Where God the Father and the Son are one. God's peace is shining on them, for they were born within your mind, as your mind was born in God's.
These honest thoughts lead you back to peace, from where they came but to remind you how you must return. They urge you gently to accept God's Word for what you are, instead of fantasies and shadows. They remind you that you are the co-creator of all things that live. For as the peace of God is shining in you, it must shine on them.
We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God. We will not let them stray. We let the light within our minds direct them to come home, and wash them clean of strange desires and disordered withes. We restore to them the holiness of their inheritance.
Thus are our minds restored with them, and we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. For it is we who make the world as we would have it. Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:
The peace of God is shining in me now.
Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
And let me bless them with the light in me.
Insights/comments:
- We are thoughts in the mind of God and as such share His peace, light and knowledge. We are one with Him and with all our brothers and everything in our "reality," just as all the people, places and things in our dreams are but thoughts in our mind and share with us all of our peace, light and knowledge. Yesterday's lesson reminded us that "... things but represent the thoughts that made them," and that "No form endures. It is the thought behind the for of things that lives unchangeable." We, being thoughts in God's mind live unchangeable, while being free to represent ourselves in various transient forms, just as the clothes we wear represent our bodies in various situations. Our bodies are not the clothes we clothe them in, and neither are the we the bodies we clothe our thoughts in.
I and my Creator are One.
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