Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 104 I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Today's idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not idle dreams.
Joy and peace are your right because of what you are.
Joy and peace come to you from God.
God cannot fail to give you what God wills.
Yet,
Must there be a place made ready to receive God's gifts?
The gifts of joy and peace are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made for God's belong,
As substitutes for God's.
Today,
We would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar where God's gifts belong.
God's gifts are the gifts that are our own in truth.
God's are the gifts that we inherited before time was.
God's are the gifts that will still be ours when time is passed into eternity.
God's are the gifts that are within us now,
For they are timeless.
We need not wait to have them.
They belong to us today.
We choose to have God's gifts now,
And know,
In choosing God's gifts in place of what we made,
We but unite our will with what God wills,
And recognize the same as being one.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Our longer practice periods today,
The hourly five minutes given truth for your salvation,
Should begin with this.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Joy and peace are my inheritance.
Then,
Lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer other gifts and other goals made of illusions.
Witness to by them,
And sought for only in a world of dreams.
All this we lay aside,
And seek instead that which is truly ours.
As we ask to recognize what God has given us.
We clear the holy place within our minds,
Before God's altar,
Where God's gifts of joy and peace are welcome,
And to which we come to find what has been given us by God.
Let's practice again.
Say to yourself,
Repeat after me,
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Joy and peace are my inheritance.
Now,
Let's put aside all the conflicts in the world that only offer illusions,
That are sought after only in a world of dreams.
Leave these conflicts behind,
Now.
Move to a clear holy place within your mind,
Where God's gifts are welcome,
Where you will find the peace and joy that has been given you by God.
Let's practice again.
Let's practice again.
Let's practice again.
Let's practice again.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Joy and peace are my inheritance.
Let's practice again.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Joy and peace are my inheritance.
Let's practice again.
We come in confidence today,
Aware that what belongs to us in truth is what God gives.
We would wish for nothing else,
For nothing else belongs to us in truth.
So,
Do we clear the way for God today by simply recognizing that God's will is done already,
And that joy and peace belong to us as God's eternal gifts.
We will not let ourselves lose sight of peace and joy between the times we come to seek for them where God has laid them.
This reminder will we bring to mind as often as we can.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God's gifts of joy and peace are all I want.
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
