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.
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“I rest in God.”
This thought will bring to you
the rest and quiet, peace and stillness,
and the safety and the happiness you seek.
“I rest in God.”
This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you,
whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth
in everyone and everything there is.
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.
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“I rest in God.”
Completely undismayed,
this thought will carry you 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 that it cannot solve.
And no appearance but will turn to truth
before the eyes of you who rest in God.
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This is the day of peace.
You rest in God,
and while the world is torn by winds of hate
your rest remains completely undisturbed.
Yours is the rest of truth.
Appearances cannot intrude on you.
You call to all to join you in your rest,
and they will hear and come to you
because you rest in God.
They will not hear another voice than yours
because you gave your voice to God,
and now you rest in Him and let Him speak to you.
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In Him you have no cares and no concerns,
no burdens, no anxiety, no pain,
no future and no past regrets.
In timelessness you rest,
while time goes by without its touch upon you,
for your rest can never change in any way at all.
You rest today.
And as you close your eyes,
sink into stillness.
Let these periods of rest and respite
reassure your mind that all its frantic fantasies
were but dreams of fever that has passed away.
Let it be still and thankfully accept its healing.
No more fearful dreams will come,
now that you rest in God.
Take time today
to slip away from dreams and into peace.
(From lesson 109)
