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 that 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 than 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.
You rest within the
peace of God
today, and call upon your brothers from your 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 within the
peace of God
today, 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
passed 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."
