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 which 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 but 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.”