I REST IN GOD
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.|
"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.|
"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 [which] it cannot solve.
And no appearance but will turn to truth
before the eyes of you who rest in God.|
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 [but] yours
because you gave your voice to God and now
you rest in Him, and let Him speak through you.|
In Him you have no cares and no concerns,
no burdens, no anxiety, no pain,
no fear of 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
the 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.|
Each hour that you take your rest today
a tired mind is suddenly made glad,
a bird with broken wings begins to sing,
a stream long dry begins to flow again.
The world is born again each time you rest,
and hourly remember that you came
to bring the peace of God into the world
that it might take its rest along with you.|
With each five minutes that you rest today
the world is nearer waking. And the time
when rest will be the only thing there is
comes closer to all worn and tired minds,
too weary now to go their way alone.
And they will hear the bird begin to sing,
and see the stream begin to flow again,
with hope reborn and energy restored
to walk with lightened steps along the road
that suddenly seems easy as they go.|
[We] rest within the peace of God today,
and call upon [our] brothers from [our] rest,
to draw them to their rest along with you.
You will be faithful to your trust today,
forgetting no-one, bringing everyone
into the boundless circle of your peace,
the holy sanctuary where you rest.
Open the temple doors and let them come
from far across the world and near as well;
your distant brothers and your closest friends;
bid them all enter here and rest with you.|
You rest [today] within the peace of God,
quiet and unafraid. Each brother comes
to take his rest and offer it to you.
We rest together here, for thus our rest
is made complete, and what we give today
we have received already. Time is not
the guardian of what we give today.
We give to those unborn and those past by,
to every Thought of God, and to the Mind
in Which these Thoughts were born, and where they rest.
And we remind them of their resting place
each time we tell ourselves:
"I rest in
God."
~ Original Hand Script of ACIM ~
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
