The world we inhabit would look entirely different if there were no more battles.

It sounds like an impossible dream, doesn't it?

But it could transpire were we all to join the Holy Spirit, thus one another, at the same moment in time.

Until then, each of us can make a small, but meaningful, contribution toward the goal every time we express a loving thought  to another human being.

     Some of us have personalities that are easily agiteted.

For us, the loving thoughts seem few and not genuine, perhaps.

It's important to understand that we' re responsible for cultivating the kind of personalities we have every minute we' re present in this world.

If we want to be like someone  else, that's always an option. We simply have to act and think accordingly.

   If fighting is our thing, we can trigger it by attracting other ego-intense people to share our journey.

But if we tire of the tension, a different way to live is readily available.

  Might we try it on for size?

I can have as many battles as my companions are willing to recognize today. Or I can be at peace.

From "DAILY MEDITATIONS" by Caren Casey

He has asked me to choose once again.

“Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there”.

How easy this choice is, indeed! He asks me to choose between my weakness and the strength of Christ in me; this is the favor my Guest asks of me.

What I choose is what I think is real.

He asks me never to let weakness direct my actions. This is how I give it no power. He asks me to let the light of Christ in me take charge of everything I do.

He asks me to bring my weakness unto Him, and He will give me His strength instead!

This is the gift He asks of me.

He explains to me that trials are but lessons that I failed to learn presented once again, so where I made a faulty choice before I now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what I chose before has brought to me.

In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity my Guest calls to me and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would remove all misery from me whom God created altar of joy. He would not leave me comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release my mind from everything that hides His face from me.

If I give Him this little gift, His strength is mine because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.

Let me not deny Him the little gift He asks, when in exchange He lays before my feet the peace of God, and power to bring this peace to everyone who wanders in the world uncertain, lonely, and in constant fear. For it is given me to join him, and through the Christ in me unveil his eyes, and let him look upon the Christ in him.

Based on ACIM, chapter 31, VIII.

I will accept Atonement for myself,

For I remain as God created me.

                                                     LESSON 139

Let the ancient learning pass away and Truth be reborn in me.

"There is no battle that must be prepared; no time to be expended, and no plans that need be laid for bringing in the new. There is an ancient battle being waged against the truth, but truth does not respond. Who could be hurt in such a war, unless he hurts himself? He has no enemy in truth. And can he be assailed by dreams?"

The truth about me is that I am as God created me - perfect.

Let me accept the truth about myself, and go my way rejoicing in the endless Love of God!

It is but this I am asked to do. This is my mission, here, on earth; to fulfill my function.

I did not come to reinforce the madness that I once believed in.

Let me not forget the goal that I accepted!

It is more than my happiness alone I came to gain. What I accept as what I am proclaims what everyone must be, anong with me.

Let me not fail my brothers, or I fail myself!

Let me look lovingly on them, that I may know that they are part of me, and me part of them.

Let me demonstrate the Oneness of the Son of God which is unassailed by any belief of his that he does not know what he is.

Let me accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about myself.

I have not lost the knowledge that God gave to me when He created me like Him.

Let me remember it for everyone, for in creation all minds are as one. And in my memory is the recall how dear my brothers are to me in truth and how much a part of me is every mind.

Amen. 

I seek understanding and I know where to look.

Is the ego always the culprit when troubling circumstances occur?

Not necessarily.

But if we're not directing a loving act, the ego has likely assumed the lead in our "drama".

How can we alter the situations that threaten to doom us? By bringing our troubled selves, our tortured expressions to the Light within.

Any consternation we feel, any angst or anger or fear that controls us, will be melted away as though it never existed when we are bathed in the Light of the Holy Spirit.

Even though we know this is true, there are monents we can't fathom the power the Holy Spirit so quietly wields. If the ego's hold is finally that tenuous, how does it catch us all? That possibly is the greatest mystery of our human journey.

Going to the Holy Spirit, again and again, doesn't lessen our welcome.

We're never like the guest who stayed too long.

The more we visit the Light, the more clarity we'll accumulate and the more peaceful we'll become.

From the "Daily Meditations" by Caren Casey. 

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

                                                                     Lesson 131

Let me not seek for goals that cannot be achieved; let me not look for permanence in the impermanent, for love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger, immortality within the darkness of the dream of death.

Let me choose a goal that lies beyond this world and every wordly thought, one that comes to me from an idea relinquished yet remembered, old yet new; an echo of a heritage forgotten, yet holding everything I really want.

Let me be glad that search I must. Let me be glad to learn I search for Heaven, and must find the goal I really want. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end.

It is not possible to seek vainly, because I am God's Son. I may try to force delay, deceive myself and think that it is hell I seek. Let me find correction when I am wrong and let me be led back to my appointed task when I wander off. This is the reason I am here, for this I came and I will surely do the thing I came for. Everything I seek but this will fall away. Not because it has been taken from me, but because I do not really want it.

I will reach the goal I really want as certaintly as God created me in sinlessness.

Why wiat for Heaven?

Let me not hasten.

Let me not hold any value for this world that will hasten my journey Home.