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<center>'''The peace of God is shining in me now.'''</center>



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 leaves a blessing
with it that 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 from 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:

<center>''The peace of God is shining in me now.''</center>
<center>''Let all things shine upon me in that peace,''</center>
<center>''And let me bless them with the light in me.''</center>


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