“The peace of God is shining in me now.”
Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering
their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a
recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you
who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with
you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your
own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your
Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you
back to where it came from and you are at home.
This light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or
believe it has been lost already or was never there? It can so easily be
looked upon that arguments which prove it is not there become
ridiculous. Who can deny the presence of what he beholds in him? It
is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no
sight, be it of dreams or from a truer source, that is not but the
shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts
and there it ends. It has no source but this.
The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart
extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and
leave a blessing with it which remains forever and forever. What it
gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and
valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it
passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in
giving thanks to you who give and you who have received.
The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has
forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From
you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and
returned. To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks.
And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to
the gifts you have to offer to the world.
The peace of God can never be contained. Who recognizes it
within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his
understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him.
The peace of God is shining in you now, and in all living things. In
quietness is it acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision
looks upon is your perception of the universe.
Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient.
It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer
world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the
way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things
outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself. These
thoughts you think with Him. They recognize their home. And they
point surely to their Source, where God the Father and the Son
are One.
God’s peace is shining on them, but they must remain with you
as well, for they were born within your mind as yours was born in
God’s. They lead you back to peace, from where they came but to
remind you how you must return. They heed your Father’s Voice
when you refuse to listen. And they urge you gently to accept His
Word for what you are, instead of fantasies and shadows. They
remind you that you are the co-creator of all things that live. For as
the peace of God is shining in you, it must shine on them.
We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. We take our
wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in
line with all the thoughts we share with God. We will not let them
stray. We let the light within our minds direct them to come home. We
have betrayed them, ordering that they depart from us. But now we
call them back, and wash them clean of strange desires and disordered
wishes. We restore to them the holiness of their inheritance.
Thus are our minds restored with them, and we acknowledge
that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things
that share our life. We will forgive them all, absolving all the world of
what we thought it did to us. For it is we who make the world as we
would have it. Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin, and
open to salvation. And we lay our saving blessing on it as we say:
“The peace of God is shining in me now.
Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
And let me bless them with the light in me.”
Britney Shawley added:
Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.
