4-33. The Peace of God is available to you in every moment. It is the undercurrent of Love which forever carries you, keeping you safe within the Truth that God will always welcome you Home.
The ego knows no peace. Peace, or even its more subtle companion contentment, is not comprehensible to the ego, for the ego desires only more in an endless succession of acquisition and accomplishment, all of which serves only to place the focus of your intentionality on the future, all of which is a locus of potentiality that has no direct predictability. Such is the nature of the ego - when it is not obsessed with reminiscences regarding what once was, and how it might have unfolded differently - as if contemplation of the past can ever hold any hope of altering that which is fully solidified into the annals of history - the ego is projecting into the future what it believes would be best, all of which is based upon a matrix of gain and loss, an endlessly expanding balance sheet that records all that has transpired, as well as what is expected to occur or not, against a final tally that cannot be genuinely said to hold any merit at all, if one is to be wholly honest with the missives of the ego and its unrelenting greed. The ego cannot be content, let alone at peace, for the ego is an illusion. As such, it requires constant sustenance to maintain its energetic emissions, absent which it will continuously wither and fade into absolute nothingness. But the ego wishes for none of that, for that would be the end of its influence over your voluntarily provided nourishment, and why would any structure based upon a presumption of loss and scarcity be at all willing to relinquish all that it believes to be necessary for its own survival? Surely you cannot be so blinded by the ego’s lies that you do not, as of yet, see that it is offering nothing at all that is Real or True, for what the ego stands for is at attempt to be in opposition to God and to Love, and all of that is but the most flagrant falsity of presumptive beliefs in what is not, rather than a final and infinitely liberating surrender to the majesty and sanctity of the Joy of Creation. Can you say with any form of veracity that your ego can expand in any manner that has use for you? We approach again a familiar line of inquiry with such an investigation, for truly the moments that seem the most liminal and freeing are those within which we feel that we have “lost ourselves”, entering a state of complete engagement with the present moment, leaving behind all suppositions of separation from what we are observing or engaging with, instead becoming integrated with and integral to the moment that unfolds infinitely and without any regard for the time that is “spent” while we are fully present. The phrase “to lose track of time” is most appropriate in this regard, for indeed what is there to measure of time when all becomes one singular moment of awareness, releasing all boundaries between observer and the observed, unifying the participant with the event, or bridging the seemingly infinite gap between the heart of one and the object of their affection, adoration or absolute love in every manner that such a limited expression can represent, for love is not complete when it is dependent upon the continuation of anything at all. Such events are seemingly rare for many, not because they are not accessible at any moment at all, but because the bravery and courage required to submit to the flow of the infinitely vast present moment is often shied away from just as soon as it begins to dissolve all notions of an inner and outer world. Indeed, there is no demarcation point that can be genuinely said to express some delineation between what you believe to be “you” and all that you will attest must be all that is “not you”, for the Infinity of Creation does not distinguish between how it is perceived to be bifurcated by bodies, separations of time or space, or differences of awareness that are so very minuscule that they have no appropriate relevance to the Mind of God. All that is the Love of God is accessible at all times, in all places and without any regard for your willingness to believe that you are not just worthy of such a Grace and a Light now - or that you might be in the future, but are not so at this exact moment - or that you might have been in the “past” but something was lost on the way and now you are cast out of the Sight of God, for some affront or indiscretion that cannot possibly be forgiven. This misunderstanding of the constancy and supreme applicability of the Love of God, as paired so perfectly with the endless Forgiveness of Love, is frequently the final sticking point that so many push up against when they progress towards a fledgling and first Experience of the Infinity that is contained within every single present moment that is available to them, cowering away in fear when they are so very close indeed to what could be an unspeakably transformative instant that would serve to clear away so many errors, for that which is genuinely lived cannot be denied, no matter how dark the ego’s blindness may continue to be. All that is necessary is surrender to the Truth of Love and faith applied rigorously to the certainty that all that is needed will be provided, and all that is required has already been granted to you. For in Truth, it will and it has, the former to come as soon as its time is most appropriate and the latter having been Given to you by God before time began to unfurl as a vast tapestry of interconnectedness upon which all that is conjunctive with materiality arises and is then subsumed again into the understanding of all of the Children of God who elect to remain asleep to the infinite possibilities that any and all moments hold for them. Nothing can limit the Will of God, and as such, nothing can stop your free will from being applied in manners appropriate for that which your heart wishes to show you, or utterly ineffective, if you elect to continue to believe that your ego, master of blindness and strife, is the leader who can provide to you whatever it is that you most desire to know or experience. Such is the mystery of choice that is so very simple that it almost never directly understood. You can choose all that you react to, including to elicit no concern at all, for while you are not granted the power to control all of the chaos of material reality, you are indeed fully empowered to evaluate all that occurs exactly as you feel is best for yourself. From such a state, all freedom arises, for while much may yet transpire that you either do not desire, or more importantly that you do not directly understand, that is of no consequence to the fate of your soul or the peace of your heart. All of these seemingly ephemeral conceptualizations are actually far more concrete than anything that is of the world of form, for that which is eternal is what will remain after all that is of form has undergone all of the necessary transformation that it must work through to be able to be expressive of all of Creation than can be summarized in form or within the flow of time. After all of that is finished, a great allowance of space and vast reaches of time within which all of the Children of God can seek out what they have always had, your peace will remain. Never have you been absent its Grace, anymore than you could possibly have been forgotten by God. Such conclusions, presenting a rationale for an assumption of an error in Creation, are all invalid and unprovable from the Truth of Love. Absent their distractions, all that would remain for you to do would be absolutely nothing at all, for acceptance and contentment would arise as the only natural states of being that are of any utility to an Awakened Child of God, for there is nothing that restricts your Peace save for your lingering beliefs that you are not worthy. What is to be released does not actually exist. What is to be accepted has always been and will always be. These are simple distinctions. But everything of what All That Is actually Is remains hidden until you are ready to be courageous enough to invest yourself within the inwardly traveling journey that will lead you not to the codification of understanding through cognition or contemplation of abstractitudes, but rather to the final Experience of Unity that will wipe away all that is fearful, leaving behind only Love, even though it was never the case that there was anything other than Love that was contiguous with God - it was simply that you attempted to extend the errors of the ego onto the Infinity of Perfection that is Creation, and through doing so, you naturally self-corrected your own error and discovered that nothing that was Real was ever altered at all.