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Lesson 245: ”Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.”

Reframe: Peace surrounds me, and I am secure.

Suggested Practice: 

From now on: 
One in the morning and one in the evening for however many minutes feels sufficient. Then every hour remember/recite the idea for the day. 

Prayer For today: 
(feel free to swap out the wording to whatever resonates with you best)

“Your peace surrounds me, Father. ²Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. ³It sheds its light on everyone I meet. ⁴I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. ⁵I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. ⁶Send them to me, my Father. ⁷Let me bring Your peace with me. ⁸For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.” (ACIM, W-245.1:1-8)

OR… “Peace is with me. Peace is with you. We are safe.”

For Lessons 241-250: What is the World? is the theme. Read the whole article here.
”The world is false perception. ²It is born of error, and it has not left its source. … The world was made as an attack on God. ²It symbolizes fear. ³And what is fear except love’s absence? … ⁵Yet everything that they report is but illusion which is kept apart from truth. … As sight was made to lead away from truth, it can be redirected. ²Sounds become the call for God, and all perception can be given a new purpose by the One Whom God appointed Savior to the world [that’s us]. ³Follow His light…Hear His Voice…let Him give you peace and certainty…⁴We must save the world.

From the PART II Introduction: Read the whole introduction here.

“Words will mean little now. ²We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. ³For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. ⁴The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. ⁵Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.” (ACIM, W-pII.in.1:1-5)

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Message

This Lesson brings up a childhood memory. I was raised Catholic, and I remember when the Mass changed from Latin—which I loved—to English. With that change came a new feature: the priest would say, “Peace be with you,” and the congregation would reply, “And also with you.” Then we’d shake hands with everyone around us, saying “Peace be with you” to each person.

It dawns on me now that while this sentiment is lovely, it has a flaw—at least from the Course’s perspective. Saying “peace be with you” implies that I wish for others to have peace, just as they wish it for me.

But in the Course’s view—and what this Lesson tells us—we already have peace. The peace of God is already with us. It surrounds us. Our challenge is removing the veil that blocks our access to it. And with that peace, we realize we are safe.

It’s like looking at a whiteboard covered in scribbles of fears and grievances, generated by the ego’s thoughts. It’s distracting, confusing, and stressful to see. But take a rag or dry eraser to it, and the board becomes clean again, revealing the peace and safety that were there all along.

Having this perspective changes everything for me. Instead of feeling like I have to seek peace outside myself, I know it’s already here. I just need to release the thoughts that distract me from it. Actually, all I need to do is choose peace instead. And when I do, I naturally want to share it with others, as the Lesson puts it:

”And so we go in peace. ²To all the world we give the message that we have received. ³And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto us.” (ACIM, W-245.2:1-3)

“Today, I remember my shin, how it fixed itself. And I will repeat Lesson 245: Peace is with me. I am safe.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

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