To experience peace, share peace with others.

Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do? Do you not want to give it to the world as much as you want to receive it? For unless you do, you will not receive it. If you want to have it of me, you must give it. Healing does not come from anyone else. You must accept guidance from within. The guidance must be what you want, or it will be meaningless to you. That is why healing is a collaborative venture. I can tell you what to do, but you must collaborate by believing that I know what you should do. Only then will your mind choose to follow me. Without this choice you could not be healed because you would have decided against healing, and this rejection of my decision for you makes healing impossible. T-8.IV.4:1-11

A Course in Miracles (p. 288). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

Jesus is reported to have said according to Matthew 7:21:  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” Jesus teaches in this passage of A Course In Miracles that if a person wants peace they must give peace. To give peace we can join with Jesus and choose to follow his example.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. With these three things peace arises.

Today it is suggested that we experience the peace within and then share it with the people we come into contact with today.

Who and what do we love?

The world must therefore despise and reject me, because the world is the belief that love is impossible. If you will accept the fact that I am with you, you are denying the world and accepting God. My will is His, and your decision to hear me is the decision to hear His Voice and abide in His Will. As God sent me to you so will I send you to others. And I will go to them with you, so we can teach them peace and union. T-8.IV.3:7-11

A Course in Miracles (p. 288). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

They hated Jesus so much because of His rejection of the world of the ego that those in power, who had a vested interest in the status quo, killed Him. But He rose above it all, forgave them, and we are still talking about it 2000 years later. Jesus’ values, beliefs, practices, and awareness are still with us if we choose to pay attention to what He taught and stood for.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. However, the motto seems to be “search and don’t find.” Looking for truth and meaning in the world of the ego is a fool’s errand. Jesus said that the way to the Kingdom is “to love as I have loved.”

Today it is suggested that we reflect on who and what we love.

Jesus wants to make us aware of our fundamental choice between thought systems.

My mission was simply to unite the will of the Sonship with the Will of the Father by being aware of the Father’s Will myself. This is the awareness I came to give you, and your problem in accepting it is the problem of this world. T-8.IV.3:4-6

A Course in Miracles (p. 288). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

Jesus tells us in A Course Of Miracles that the purpose in his life was to make people aware of God’s will for them as compared to the world of the ego. Jesus was not a person of the ego world. He constantly pointed out that people have a choice: to live in the world of conditional love or unconditional love, the world of the ego or the world of God. The problem lies in which thought system we choose to live by.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This worth and dignity comes not from the world of ego and conditional love, but as the Universalists taught us from the world of God and unconditional love.

Today it is suggested that we reflect on the choice we have between the two thought systems: conditional love and the world of the ego or unconditional love and the world of our Transcendent Source.

What is God’s will for our lives?

If God’s Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience only this you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will. His Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever. When you are not at peace it can only be because you do not believe you are in Him. Yet He is All in all. His peace is complete, and you must be included in it. His laws govern you because they govern everything. You cannot exempt yourself from His laws, although you can disobey them. Yet if you do, and only if you do, you will feel lonely and helpless, because you are denying yourself everything. T-8.IV.1:1-8

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When we are off track we are uneasy. When we are doing our own thing and not paying attention to God’s will for us, we are anxious. We feel that something is missing in our life. It dawns on us that there must be a better way. This dawning can precipitate a search for what some call “truth and meaning” but really is trying to discern God’s will for us.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search is an effort to discern God’s will for our lives.

Today it is suggested that we ask ourselves, “What the matters the most to me in my life is ______. _______, and _______.” Is what matters most to you in alignment with what you believe is God’s will for you?

Our power and glory come from being a part of the whole.

Power and glory belong to God alone. So do you. God gives whatever belongs to Him because He gives of Himself, and everything belongs to Him. Giving of yourself is the function He gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you have of Him, and by this you will remember also what you are in Him. You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. Glory is God’s gift to you, because that is what He is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are. T-8.III.8:1-8

A Course in Miracles (pp. 286-287). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

If we as individuals are like drops in the ocean, it is good for us to recognize and acknowledge that the power and the glory belongs to the ocean and so it belongs to us.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the awareness of the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. We can perceive the parts of the whole and some of us become aware that the whole is greater than simply the sum of the parts.

Today it is suggested that our power and glory comes from unity not from our individuality which is, from the perspective of the whole, an illusion.

Where are Truth, Goodness, and Beauty to be found?

God wills no one suffer. He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. That is why He has given you the means for undoing it. Through His power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. The imprisonment they seem to produce is no more true than they are. T-8.III.7:5-10

A Course in Miracles (p. 286). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

There are many wonderful lessons in A Course In Miracles. One of them is the idea that we can change our minds. Another is we are encouraged to try again. Bill said to Helen, “There must be a better way” and this was the precipitating event that started the dictation of what we now know as A Course In Miracles.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search entails changing our minds about what we believe to be true.

Today it is suggested that we ask the Holy Spirit to guide our thinking and understanding of what Truth, Goodness, and Beauty are. Truth, Goodness, and Beauty are to be found in unconditional love not conditional love.

What are you intending to do with your life?

You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from them. The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and therefore in you. T-8.III.7:1-4

A Course in Miracles (p. 286). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

We are not gods in spite of what the ego tells us and we want to believe. The fact is that God is in us. Exchange the word “life” for the word “god” and the meaning of this passage becomes clearer.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which comes from “Life” and is innate to our being.

Today it is suggested that we consider the Life that is within us and what we intend to do with it.