Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening.
Your Father wills you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep
within your mind where He abides. Hear Him today. No peace is possible
until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet
listening, accepts the message which the world must hear to usher in the
quiet time of peace.
2 This world will change through you. No other means can save
it, for God’s plan is simply this: the Son of God is free to save
himself, given the Word of God to be his Guide, forever in his mind and
at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will,
forever free as God’s. He is not led by force, but only love. He is not
judged, but only sanctified.
3 In stillness we will hear God’s Voice today without
intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and
without all judgment of His holy Word. We will not judge ourselves
today, for what we are cannot be judged. We stand apart from all the
judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God. It knows him
not. Today we will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for the
Word of God.
4 Hear, holy Son of God, your Father speak. His Voice would
give to you His holy Word to spread across the world the tidings of
salvation and the holy time of peace. We gather at the throne of God
today, the quiet place within the mind where He abides forever in the
holiness which He created and will never leave.
5 He has not waited until you return your mind to Him to give
His Word to you. He has not hid Himself from you while you have wandered
off a little while from Him. He does not cherish the illusions which you
hold about yourself. He knows His Son and wills that he remain as part
of Him regardless of his dreams, regardless of his madness that his will
is not his own.
6 Today He speaks to you. His Voice awaits your silence, for
His Word cannot be heard until your mind is quiet for a while and
meaningless desires have been stilled. Await His Word in quiet. There is
peace within you to be called upon today to help make ready your most
holy mind to hear the Voice of its Creator speak.
7 Three times today, at times most suitable for silence, give
ten minutes set apart from listening to the world and choose instead a
gentle listening to the Word of God. He speaks from nearer than your
heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything
you are and that He is—the same as you, and you the same as He.
8 It is your voice to which you listen as He speaks to you.
It is your Word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of
unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single
Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self today, and let
Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your
Self.
9 Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this to let your
practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world and free your
vision from the body’s eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the
Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in His Father’s Will, at one
with It, with no illusions interposed between the wholly indivisible and
true.
10 As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and
remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day—in quiet to
receive the Word of God.