Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.
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Lesson 188
The peace of God is shining in me now. (ACIM, W-188)
This lesson asks, "Why wait for Heaven?" (ACIM, W-188.1:1)
Heaven is within you, and will always be within you. It's not hard to find, it only has to be remembered. The state of bliss we call heaven is the light of peace that warms us and gives us vision.
In peace, "We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God." (ACIM, W-188.9:2)
In peace, we absolve "all the world from what we thought it did to us. ³For it is we who make the world as we would have it. ⁴Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. (ACIM, W-188.10:2-4)
Heaven is our default state. Peace is our default condition.
These are our factory settings. We can hit the reset button at any time. Multiple times a day if we need to. And over time we'll need to reset less and less often because we'll be closer to where we want to be.
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