“When action is seen to be necessary, this is exactly when a time of stillness is needed. You might think of this time of stillness as a time of consulting with your new identity. Simply sitting quietly, and posing the question or concern that is in need of appropriate action will suffice. (A Course of Love, 25.23)”
Affirmation: ‘I will spend some time in quietness today.”
Reflections:
1 – Need for Stillness
We need to be still. We need to practice stillness. Reading this passage prompted me to stop typing and to be still. I turned to some inspirational reading, and now I am back. Perhaps the stillness will impact this blog posting.
2 – Solution Is with the Problem
This passage for today is another way of stating a truth from A Course in Miracles: that the solution is with the problem. We have only to state the problem, to ask for the solution, and to receive that solution immediately (normally). When we expect quick answer, we normally get them. This is, of course, not always true, but this does hold true more often than not. Sometimes our emotions are so warm (even hot) that we need to cool down before the answer will come, the solution will come. This is what the stillness of this passage is trying to say.
3 – Healing
We must realize that there is a solution to every problem. If we are in need of healing, we may know that the healing may be emotional rather than physical–but emotional healing is often far more important, even, than physical. We will be given the will to walk on. We will know that God cares.
4 – Practice the Presence of God
We need to practice the presence of God in as many ways as we can. Praying silently, and aloud as well, are two good ways to invite God’s presence to impress Itself upon us. It is often thought that meditation does the same, though Jesus in ACIM does not counsel much time spent in contemplation. He says that our way, with ACIM, is in our relationship to our brother (or sister). And we who practice ACIM have long recognized the truth of this statement.
5 – Meditation
The final pages of the Workbook of ACIM do seem meditative, though. And perhaps it is. (There is a difference of opiiion among students/teachers of ACIM about this.) We can let guidance lead the way–guidance of the Holy Spirit, in ACIM; and guidance of Christ-consciousness, in A Course of Love.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
I sometimes need just to be still, to bask in Your warmth, to know that peace of that passeth understanding. Jesus says in A Course in Miracles that we will ultimately choose to calm and quiet all the time. This is a statement of the meek, who do not seek to self-aggrandize themselves. May the moments of stillness and quiet that I have known today carry on throughout the day and evening.
Help us to understand that being perfectly calm and quiet is a desirable thing. We are so used to drama, and that may be why our ego is not yet dead in us. We crave drama, and with that often comes attack and anger. I would not have it so in my life. Help me to live Your way.
A moment spend reading is a moment well-spent. Thank You for leading me to that conclusion. I have read Jesus’s words in the New Testament today, and I thank You that we have that record. Also I thank You for the blessings of A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 