June 30, 2020
Lesson 182 –
I will be still an instant and go home. ACIM.p1.182
This is one of my favorite lessons from the Course. It never fails to bring peace to my mind. Always a return to the awareness of my true holiness and wholeness – my true Self. It reminds me that I am One with each One in Oneness. From this place I can see another, myself and the world differently. I am reminded to look beyond the appearance of what I think I see and understand to the beaty of the truth and reality beyond. I am healed as I alow the healing of another.
Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence. Christ has called you friend. They have even come to ask your help in letting Them go home today, completed and completely. They have come as does a little child, who must beseech their parent for protection and for love. They rule the universe, and yet They ask unceasingly that you return with Them, and take illusions as your gods no more. W-pI.182.11:1-5
There is a child in us who knows our true Self. This child knows the way home. This holy child is our guide. They ask us to rest an instant, to slow down in our frantic effort to make sense of the chaos and confusion of the world we think we see. When we are still an instant, when the world recedes from us, when valueless ideas cease to have value in our restless mind, then will we hear Their Voice. They call to us so poignantly that we stay with them a little longer. In that instant we are at home, and we will stay there with Them in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that we are at home.
You have not lost your innocence. It is for this you yearn. This is your heart’s desire. This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied. The holy Child remains with you. Their home is yours. Today They give you Their defenselessness, and you accept it in exchange for all the toys of battle you have made. And now the way is open, and the journey has an end in sight at last. Be still an instant and go home with Them, and be at peace a while. W-pI.182.12:1-9
Practice this lesson frequently. The holy Child within you is strong. Come without defenses, for They offer only love’s messages to those who think they are their enemy. They hold the might of Heaven and give Their strength. In stillness we find our true home. We have always been there, but blocked it from our awareness. Let your defenses fall away. We are already safe in our true home. Allow the holy Child within to bring us there as we become still for just an instant, long enough to allow Heaven to appear before our eyes.
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