Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 Today’s idea continues with the thought that joy and peace
are not but idle dreams. They are your right because of what you are.
They come to you from God, Who cannot fail to give you what He wills.
Yet must there be a place made ready to receive His gifts. They are not
welcomed gladly by a mind which has instead received the gifts it made
where His belong, as substitutes for them.
2 Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts
which we have placed upon the holy altar where God’s gifts belong. These
are the gifts which are our own in truth. His are the gifts which we
inherited before time was and which will still be ours when time has
passed into eternity.
3 These are the gifts which are within us now, for they are
timeless. And we need not wait to have them. They belong to us today.
Therefore we will to have them now and know in choosing them in place of
what we made we but unite our will with what God wills and recognize the
same as being one.
4 Our longer practice periods today, the hourly five minutes
given truth for your salvation, should begin with this:
5 I seek but what belongs to me in truth,
And joy and peace are my inheritance.
6 Then lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer other
gifts and other goals made of illusions, witnessed to by them, and
sought for only in a world of dreams. All this we lay aside and seek
instead that which is truly ours, as we ask to recognize what God has
given us.
7 We clear a holy place within our minds before His altar,
where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome and to which we come to
find what has been given us by Him. We come in confidence today, aware
that what belongs to us in truth is what He gives. And we would wish for
nothing else, for nothing else belongs to us in truth.
8 So do we clear the way for Him today by simply recognizing
that His Will is done already and that joy and peace belong to us as His
eternal gifts. We will not let ourselves lose sight of them between the
times we come to seek for them where He has laid them. This reminder
will we bring to mind as often as we can:
9 I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God’s gifts of joy and peace are all I want.
