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A meaningless world engenders fear because
I think I am in competition with God.
You may find it difficult to avoid resistance, in one form or another, to this concluding statement.
Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the "vengeance" of the "enemy."
You are not expected to believe the statement at this point, and will probably dismiss it as preposterous.
Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse.
You are not asked to make insane decisions, although you can think you are.
It must, however, be insane to believe that it is up to you to decide what God's creations are.
The Holy Spirit perceives the conflict exactly as it is.
Therefore, His second lesson is:
To have peace, teach peace to learn it.
Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence.
And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son.
Dream of your brother's kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes.
Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave.
Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave.
And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams.
He represents his Father, Whom you see as offering both life and death to you.
No more than this; the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite.
There is no thought that contradicts His Will, yet can be true.
The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality.
In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours.
Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you.
He does not seek to keep it for Himself.
Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him?
The Will of God is one and all there is. This is your heritage.
The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belong to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will.
Attain His peace, and you remember Him.
The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh and then projected outward.
This produces what seems to be a wall of flesh around the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space and time, beholden unto death, and given but an instant in which to sigh and grieve and die in honor of its master.
And this unholy instant seems to be life; an instant of despair, a tiny island of dry sand, bereft of water and set uncertainly upon oblivion.
Here does the Son of God stop briefly by, to offer his devotion to death's idols and then pass on. And here he is more dead than living.
Yet it is also here he makes his choice again between idolatry and love.
When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.
There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.
Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard.
The Holy Spirit will not delay in answering your every question what to do. He knows.
And He will tell you, and then do it for you.
You who are tired will find this is more restful than sleep. For you can bring your guilt into sleeping, but not into this.
