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A Course in Miracles Lesson #205 (review)
Central Theme:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Specific Review: “(#185) I want the peace of God.”
There appear to be countless ways in which our peace is taken from us. We may wake up and hear some terrible news, or find that we have a flat tire on the car, or perhaps we take our peace away with the remembrance of an injustice we think has been done to us. What do these things have in common? They are all material conditions. The peace of God is a spiritual quality which cannot be affected by anything. We start out by realizing that such a higher peace exists and is a very present possibility in our existence. Then we find ways to realize peace. There are so many avenues to this end. I think the first step is to realize what peace is, and there are many effective ways of doing this. One way which I have experienced is through the receiving and giving of the Oneness Blessing. This process is very appealing to me because there is no need to delve into all the reasons we are not peaceful. When becoming a Oneness Blessing Giver, you first go through an intense day of releasing the past. We started with rectifying our relationships with our parents. And this is not done by counting all the ways we feel we have been wronged, or that we have wronged them. It is a release, then a replacement of the space left with peace, through the realization of divine Love. When you are given this Oneness Blessing you can expect to feel happiness. After completing my training, I gave one to my son. He almost immediately started to laugh. I asked why: was he nervous? No, he said, he just felt happy. And this is what this transmission of divine Love is all about. Leaving us free to feel happy, to be the peace of God. This peace and joy are inherent in our Being. To receive Deeksha (which is the true name for this process, but you know how we're afraid of foreign words in the United States!), or to learn to be a Blessing Giver, there are many websites which will tell how to find these events in your part of the world. This is but one way I have found to facilitate the process of realizing I Am the peace of God. Let me know ways you've found to know this Truth!
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 96:12-20
