Peace

"What is the Peace of God? No more than this; the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite... The Will of God is One and all there is. This is your heritage. The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belong to you. God's Peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His Peace, and you remember Him." -- A Course in Miracles

Oneness. Allness. Infinite Wholeness. All-encompassing Divine Love. Bliss. As the above quote says, the simple understanding that there is nothing else, no opposite anywhere, ever. This is the Peace of God. No exceptions enter, for what could be outside this Oneness? No opposites exist, for what could oppose Allness?

We all have glimpses of peace. Restful evenings listening to the frogs, quiet moments with a cup of tea, crystalline moments of pause in the midst of strenuous activity, and the nurturing times gazing into a warm fire after a hard day. From our limited perspective, these are very good times. But they are all laced with the knowledge that they are a time apart, and that they are temporary. The world is based on this very tension, the dance of opposites and contrast.

There is no contrast in the Peace of God. It is Omnipresent and is not dependent on anything. We have only to remember that God IS, and that God's Will IS, wholly without opposite. We need do nothing. Just rest in this, our true happiness and our true Self. This is not some alien will forced on us from without. This is an inside job.

Knowing this Oneness as our true Self is the most practical thing we can do in the world. It releases us from a false sense of separation and responsibility about it all. It allows our true nature of Wholeness to become our way of Being in the world. And our lives reflect this Wholeness effortlessly, through our Awakening and the Awakening of those around us. The joy of this is beyond measure, and cannot be measured externally by circumstances or conditions.

The Peace of God is Home. Nothing else but Home will ever satisfy us. The fake peace we have settled for up until now is not worthy of us. As ACIM reminds us, "Nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you."

"The absence of perfect peace means but one thing: You think you do not will for God's Son what his Father wills for him. Every dark lesson teaches this, in one form or another. And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept, teaches you that you will with Father and His Son." -- A Course in Miracles