My thoughts* on ACIM Workbook and Lesson 200, July 19, 2025, There is NO Peace Except the Peace of God

There is no peace except the peace of God.

* WE WANT TO HEAR THIS LOUD AND CLEAR.

* ESPECIALLY IN A WORLD WHERE WE WISH TO SEE PEACE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

* THE PEACE OF GOD RESIDES WITHIN AND COMES WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT GOD IS AND NOTHING COULD BE IN OPPOSITION TO HYMN OR OUTSIDE OF HYMN.

* Jesus teaches in the Course that this PEACE and knowledge do not arrive while we hold a grudge toward anyone, or while we believe that “bad things” and harmful things can be REAL.

* We have been tested over this, have we not, with the Texas flooding and that in other parts of the world?

* Yes, we must address it. Yes, we must recognize that it appears to be real and horrific and permanent, but IF ONE ACCEPTS THIS INTERPRETATION you have denied God’s Existence. Instead, live moment by moment doing what you can if only to send out heart felt compassion toward all involved and anything else you are inspired by Father through SPIRIT to do.

* ALONG WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT GOD IS ALL THAT IS AND THAT THERE IS NO OPPOSITION TO HYMN.

* This is the hologram. This is the Matrix.

1. Seek you no further.

²You will not find peace except the peace of God.

³Accept this fact, and save yourself the agony of yet more bitter disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt.

⁴Seek you no further.

⁵There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.

* The “SEEKING” is done, as if these the “terrors” are “real.”

* Instead, follow your dreams and your goals as you are inspired and look to Father for guidance through SPIRIT, knowing that ALL IS WELL, and that you may walk in confidence before God in the midst of the sonship that is Christ.

* This need not take away the sense of URGENCY or CREATIVITY, but will replace the sense of desperatism that underscores any fear-driven goal to excitement for the task of being in alignment with your present role within the Plan of Salvation designed by God, the One Original Universal Creator and Father.

2. This is the final point to which each one must come at last, to lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none; of being saved by what can only hurt; of making peace of chaos, joy of pain, and Heaven out of hell.

* Okay, y’all know I have ‘Elon on my mind,’ so let me address this the way I would speak to him, if I could.

* Perhaps, part of why he is in my sphere of awareness is so that the manner with which I share these profound principles can be seen as if coming from a woman who is reaching for an impossible experience. That in itself, may be enough room to allow the message to slip into a side door of someone’s mind and heart, allowing the seed of these precious fruits to grow.

* Last evening I was on X for a few minutes, and Elon, showed a photo of himself holding a diamond the size of an egg. His question was what is it made of, gold, silver or carbon? I said carbon, but really it is a trick question because it is like he describes money. It is not anything of itself but within the construct of what the human psyche says it is, it is a form of exchange of goods and services, as is money. The human race has given it the meaning of being a symbol for union, connection, IE. love.

* To understand it through the teachings of Jesus and the Atonement it is a symbol or expression of the love of God as is everything that we see before us ONCE we understand that God has given it to us.

* Recognition of God in ALL things allows us to be willing to see God’s blessings in all things, and as we follow SPIRIT within to have all things cleansed and purified, turning it into something we hold as precious as a diamond.

* In other words, without God, it is in and of itself, nothing. In denying God’s reality the first 45 years that A Course in Miracles was on the Earth, led to us ignoring what Jesus had given us and included denying not only God’s reality but our own. It gave justification for all kinds of deceit and mayhem, as acknowledging God has unveiled.

* Belief in life and the right to claim the abundance that our Father in Heaven desires for HIS SON is restored with the acknowledgment of God, HYMNSELF.

²Attempt no more to win through losing, nor to die to live.

³You cannot but be asking for defeat.

3. Yet you can ask as easily for love, for happiness, and for eternal life in peace that has no ending.

²Ask for this, and you can only win.

³To ask for what you have already must succeed.

⁴To ask that what is false be true can only fail.

* GOD makes existence a reality. Nothing else could or would. And HE acknowledges all things as His One Son that He Blesses AS ONE. SPIRIT will show us how to enter the mindset that allows us to expose the darkness that light may be brought into it that we may be once again returned to our pure and “wholly” state, while the idea of separation drifts further and further from our recall or consciousness.

* Resolving this issue on Earth is only the beginning because there is a vast body of “in reality” a small portion of the mind of Christ that still believes that separation is real, and this is why Elon has been called to give us the vision of interplanetary consciousness and existence. This is my understanding, based on deductive reasoning of the teachings of Jesus.

⁵Forgive yourself for vain imaginings, and seek no longer what you cannot find.

⁶For what could be more foolish than to seek and seek and seek again for hell, when you have but to look with open eyes to find that Heaven lies before you, through a door that opens easily to welcome you?

4. Come home.

²You have not found your happiness in foreign places and in alien forms that have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful.

* Many see the immigration challenge around the world as being cruel because they have yet to recognize the burden we have placed on them to be second-class citizens, a type of slavery, wherein humanity is used at the whim of nefarious individuals who took advantage of them. This is not economics, business, or justifiable. It is wrong, pure and simple.

* We are removing an attitude of recognizing humanity as anything other than equal and free. In hindsight, this will be easily seen.

³This world is not where you belong.

* This is speaking to the world that does not acknowledge God.

⁴You are a stranger here.

* Once you are willing to see God here beyond the illusion of separation, you will see Heaven and nothing else. You will be able to acknowledge eternity and moment-to-moment existence, that is, eternal life and Father, wherein He and the Son are in constant and clear communion.

⁵But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or jail for anyone.

* This is a promise that we are given from God, the Father, through SPIRIT in the words of Jesus as presented from the minds of Helen, Bill, and Ken. Hmm, wouldn’t it be nice to just go straight to the Source? THAT is what accepting the Atonement does, yet it is all one. The problem comes when the voice of separation (ego) interferes and says some are worthy and some are not. The Atonement undoes this and give you the ‘sight’ of SPIRIT to look over what is presented and ‘see’ what is real.

5. Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors.

²But you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape.

* Hear this, it is in the purpose of the world that changes within the consciousness first. Then the outer world will begin to reflect a better inner world for humanity.

³You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is.

⁴You made him not; no more yourself.

⁵And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is.

6. What does forgiveness do?

²In truth it has no function, and does nothing.

³For it is unknown in Heaven.

⁴It is only hell where it is needed, and where it must serve a mighty function.

* I really appreciate the acknowledgement of this! Hell, which is a place without God, which is also impossible, is where we ‘see’ ourselves today. This idea needs to be rooted out of our consciousness and not carried with us into the cosmos as we head to Mars and beyond.

⁵Is not the escape of God’s beloved Son from evil dreams that he imagines, yet believes are true, a worthy purpose?

⁶Who could hope for more, while there appears to be a choice to make between success and failure; love and fear?

* ‘APPEARS’ is the word to focus on here. Deny what is fake by acknowledging the Atonement. The ‘at one meant.’

7. There is no peace except the peace of God, because He has one Son who cannot make a world in opposition to God’s Will and to his own, which is the same as His.

²What could he hope to find in such a world?

³It cannot have reality, because it never was created.

⁴Is it here that he would seek for peace?

⁵Or must he see that, as he looks on it, the world can but deceive?

⁶Yet can he learn to look on it another way, and find the peace of God.

8. Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind.

²But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond.

³Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors.

⁴Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.

9. Let us not lose our way again today.

²We go to Heaven, and the path is straight.

³Only if we attempt to wander can there be delay, and needless wasted time on thorny byways.

⁴God alone is sure, and He will guide our footsteps.

⁵He will not desert His Son in need, nor let him stray forever from his home.

⁶The Father calls; the Son will hear.

⁷And that is all there is to what appears to be a world apart from God, where bodies have reality.

10. Now is there silence.

²Seek no further.

³You have come to where the road is carpeted with leaves of false desires, fallen from the trees of hopelessness you sought before.

⁴Now are they underfoot.

⁵And you look up and on toward Heaven, with the body’s eyes but serving for an instant longer now.

⁶Peace is already recognized at last, and you can feel its soft embrace surround your heart and mind with comfort and with love.

11. Today we seek no idols.

²Peace can not be found in them.

³The peace of God is ours, and only this will we accept and want.

⁴Peace be to us today.

⁵For we have found a simple, happy way to leave the world of ambiguity, and to replace our shifting goals and solitary dreams with single purpose and companionship.

* Ambiguity; multiple meanings or general uncertainty. There is certainty anywhere and everywhere in the world that KNOWS GOD. All other philosophies, interpretations, and ideas fall short.

⁶For peace is union, if it be of God.

* The witness of this comes to rest within the heart and soul of those who release the son in true forgiveness (still within the illusion, because there is no opposition to God).

* We MUST see GOD if we are to know peace within AND without.

⁷We seek no further.

⁸We are close to home, and draw still nearer every time we say:

⁹There is no peace except the peace of God, and I am glad and thankful it is so.

(ACIM, W-200.1:1–11:9)

To God be all glory, even as He shares it with the Son, amen.

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