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A Course in Miracles Lesson #255
“This day I choose to spend in perfect peace."
Having chosen to spend every day in perfect peace, it always surprises me when I don't! Those first thoughts in the morning are so important, and recently it seemed they had a mind of their own and I couldn't change what was going through my head. From planning busywork for the day to judgmental nitpicking, to total inanities, that was all I could think. I'd try to get on track by repeating well-loved quotations, but it was as though I'd forget and slip into something else. I would determine to affirm what is true of spiritual man and then end up thinking what seems so true of mortal man. It was exhausting! Midday a friend came over to visit and immediately said she'd never seen me looking so bad and asked what was wrong. Apparently more was wrong than I'd been willing to admit, as it all poured out in response to her. And that broke the spell. The act of speaking what frightened me took the fear and confusion away. As I read the below quoted material, I wonder how many of us are feeling the same thing. Fear not! It is the breaking up of error!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.”
Science & Health Page 92:12-20
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