I met a woman who had lived in our mountain town for about a year. She wasn't happy here; not in any way. She told me how she couldn't stand the weather, her job, her apartment, the lack of public transportation, our farmers' market. For most of her diatribe, I calmly listened to her and agreed that she should probably go back to Houston where she was happier. But when she started to put down our local farmers' market, I verbally retaliated in a fashion more vehement than expected! Looking back on the situation, I realize the "peace of God" (which we are contemplating in today’s Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185) has nothing to do with degrees. Divine Love doesn't become riled up if someone says something derogatory about a cause which is close to Its heart. It doesn’t become a bit upset over something, and ragingly defensive over something else. Today my focus will be on experiencing peace in every situation, not just the ones I have no emotional connection towards!
"The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace."
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 506:11-12
“The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him in such a way that he can not mistake it, if his asking is sincere. But if he asks without sincerity, there is no form in which the lesson will meet with acceptance and be truly learned.”
A Course in Miracles W-185.6:1-4
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