Day 109

Today's Lesson:

I rest in God.

We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world's appearances. We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow. And we have the thought that will answer our asking with what we request.

"I rest in God." This thought will bring to us the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness we seek. "I rest in God." Here is the end of suffering for all the world, and everyone who ever came and yet will come to linger for a while. Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself.

"I rest in God." Completely undismayed, this thought will carry us through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problem it cannot solve. And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of us who rest in God.

This is the day of peace. We rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate our rest remains completely undisturbed. Ours is the rest of truth. We call to all to join us in our rest, and they will hear another voice than ours because we gave our voices to God, and now we rest in Him and Him speak through us.

Each hour that we take our rest today, a tired mind is suddenly made glad, a bird with broken wings begins to sing, a stream long dry begins to flow again. The world is born again each time we rest, and hourly remember that we came to bring the peace of God into the world, that it might take rest along with us.

We rest within the peace of God today, quiet and unafraid. Each brother comes to take his rest, and offer it to us. We rest together here, for thus our rest is made complete, and what we give today we have received already. Time is not the guardian of what we give today. We give to those unborn and those passed by, to every Thought of God, and to the Mind in which these Thoughts were born and where they rest. And we remind them of their resting place each time we tell ourselves, "I rest in God."

Miracles I'm noticing:

Today's lesson is a wonderful reminder in the midst of the events taking place this week at Virginia Tech. Thinking of each of the victims - and the gunman - I remember that "I (and each of them) rest in God."

Peace on earth.