A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 305, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 305 There is a peace that Christ bestows on us. 1. Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart.

Lesson 305

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

1. Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. ²Comparisons are still before this peace. ³And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. ⁴For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

2. Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. ²Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. ³For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves.

This description of peace is the reason my only goal is the peace of God.

When in 2019, I experienced a significant shift, I felt this peace as is described here. It was joyful, and for a few months, I went around in a state of astonished bliss. Eventually, I began to notice ego thinking intruding on this perfect peace.

At first, I was upset and afraid I would lose this forever and go back to living in conflict as I had before. However, I began to notice that even when an ego thought intruded on my peace, it didn’t last. I was quickly aware of it and quickly released it. Eventually, I realized that there were still some beliefs that needed to be undone, so I did that and still do that.

The intrusions onto my peace and happiness get fewer, and they are easier to undo. The ego tries to interest me in various fears, but I know what is going on so I just watch my feelings and act accordingly. If I feel upset in any way, I look with the Holy Spirit until it is gone.

This is so much better, so much more peaceful than before the Course. Still, it is not the peace that Jesus is describing here, but it is moving in that direction. I know I will reach “the peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless.” For that reason, I continue to stay vigilant. I watch for opportunities to bring that time closer. This is done as I forgive all that prevents peace. Attaining the peace of God is the only goal worth having in this world. It is amazing! I want this for everyone.

I love the peace lessons.

The peace of God is not something I want; it is everything I want. This is my purpose. In her root cause inquiry process, Regina Dawn Akers reminds us that if our minds were healed, nothing would disturb us, not even the current emotional disturbance being used for the process. That is why the peace of God is my function here.

Often, when I notice a disturbing thought in my mind, and I look at it with the Holy Spirit and release it to him, I say to myself that this thought is not relevant. What I mean by that is that it will not bring me peace, so I have no further use for it. When I say this, I do so with conviction because conviction gives power to my words.

We all know how to be convicted.

The problem is that we often become convicted of the wrong thoughts. I used to be convinced that I could not do math other than the most basic stuff. I truly believed that. Probably because of something my father said when he was at the end of his patience with me while helping me with my homework.

Because I believed him, I spent many years struggling to do what I was convinced was impossible. When I said I couldn’t do math, I was convicted of that statement. It was the absolute truth to me. One day, long after college, I was in the library and ran across a book about math that promised to make it easy and fun.

I remembered my surprise in college taking the one math class that was required that I did well in it. So, I decided to question this belief that I couldn’t do math, and I discovered that I had been convinced of something that wasn’t true all those years. If I could become convicted of something not true, how much easier would it be to transfer my conviction to something true?

Just as I avoided math because I believed I could not do it, maybe I spent so much of my life in chaos because I believed it was unavoidable. A few years ago, I decided that peace has to be possible because Jesus says it is. It must be possible because I live in God, and God could not be anything other than peace. I shifted my conviction from chaos to peace. Now I am convicted of that decision. The peace of God is my one goal while I am here.

This is a past entry from an early journal.

When I was still very much identified with the ego-self, Holy Spirit helped me with encouraging words. I am no longer fearful or reluctant to awaken as I was at that time. Now I am looking forward to undoing the last bits of the self so I can finally pop out of this illusion. But I found so much comfort in His message, and I still feel the love of His words, so I continue to share this message.

I love the promise this lesson offers.

I can have peace, complete and undisturbed. It is peace, unlike anything I have experienced in the illusion. It is not something being held before me, a carrot to keep me in line and working in the right direction. Peace is something I can have right now if I make the decision to use only Christ’s vision. So far, I have not been willing to do so.

I am getting closer, and I yearn for that moment, but evidently, I have trouble making it a total commitment. There are still things in the world that I value. Some of those things are ridiculous. I see my resistance in my actions and reactions and in my feelings when I am honest with myself.

Clearly, I still value anger, and I value the belief that I want to make someone else responsible. I can still feel the need for someone to blame. And I still value specialness. I still value being right, and I value the idea that I know something. I see these obstacles, and I recognize the need to release them, so that is encouraging.

Probably the biggest obstacle to my peace is that I value self-will and the belief my will is a separate thing from your will and even from God’s Will. I have become willing to admit that my will is not making me happy. But have not yet been able to give up the idea of self-will regardless of how much I have to suffer to keep it. I cannot even believe in self-will as being truth.

It is an illusion, and yet it is an illusion that I cling to.

It still feels like me, and it feels like letting it go would be annihilation. If I think that I will to be an empty vessel through which God flows, and if I think about that seriously, I feel a thrill of fear. It seems I am ready to share myself with God but not quite ready to relinquish all of self to exist as Self.

Me: Holy Spirit, it is very frustrating to me. I want to be willing, but I cannot seem to force this willingness onto myself. But I am willing to be willing. I give You the willingness I have now, and I ask You to strengthen that willingness. Even as I recognize my resistance, I know that I am willing to release it and accept Your gift instead. I cannot do this, but I believe that with the willingness I have, it can be done for me.

Holy Spirit: It is done, my dear and holy child of God. It is done. Be patient with yourself as you continue to awaken to the truth that always was and always will be. I assure you the day will come when you will laugh at your fears, and then you will no longer remember what it was you had feared. Right now, in your mind, you are the little girl playing dress-up. You play at being mommy, teacher, preacher. You play at being wise, and then you play at being foolish.

Thousands of times, tens of thousands, you have done this.

 All the parts you can think of have been played. All the costumes and all the masks have been tried. You have experienced all the emotions from pleasure to anguish. You have tried to imitate love in a million ways. And you have done a superb job of pretending to be something you are not. You have thought the impossible and considered it from every angle. Now you are tired of this game and want to come home but are reluctant to let it end. Like a tired child at the end of a long day, you refuse to let go of your game.

Me: Holy Spirit, I am afraid of giving up my self. I am so confused about who I am. Will I cease to exist when there is only God? Will there be no trace of myself?

Holy Spirit: The self you are afraid to lose knows nothing and is afraid of everything. It lives desperate lives searching for what does not exist and longing for the power and love that it has never lost but is only afraid to acknowledge. This sad parody of your Self is not worthy of you. You cling to smoke, to shadows. You cling to nothing. Your Father asks nothing of you but only offers you everything as He did at your creation. You cannot lose anything, dear one, for there is nothing to lose. The self to which you cling so desperately is just a thought, an idea, a belief, and nothing more than that. When you stop thinking this thought, your glory will fill your mind. You will remember your power and your wholeness, and you will remember bliss. You will remember who you are.

God does not want your little self.

He does not want anything because God is everything. God does not know lack, so God cannot want. God does not know sacrifice or jealousy. These are attributes of ego, and God does not know ego. They are the ego thoughts within your mind projected onto your idea of God. You have nothing to fear from God because, truly, He has not been destroyed by your dreams, and He is not offended by them. He glories in your power as He glories in His Own because He knows there is no difference. Only you are confused about that, for truly, there is only God.

Think of this: if only God exists, you must be part of that God. If you are having an experience that seems to put you outside of that God, it must be a dream, for there is no outside of God. And if you wake from that dream, what could you have lost? And where could you have lost it? There is only God. You have dreamed of danger for so long that safety is inconceivable to you, but your confusion does not change God.

You have dreamed of an experience that was unlike your holy Self, and in your dream, you have played many and varied characters. God marvels at the power of your creative imagination, but He does not confuse your play with reality. He knows that little pieces of yourself you dream of are simply part of God. They have gone nowhere because there is nowhere to go. You will never lose yourself, dear one; you will only remember yourself.

Me: Holy Spirit, thank you.

I set aside my impatience and my fear that I will be forever stuck in the littleness of my dream. I trust You, and through that trust am learning to trust myself.

Contemplation 2025

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