just take a minute to just steal your mind and be it's open and as receptive
as you can be
take all of your mind just tell it I am open to receive
I am open
to the experience
that this lesson offers
I rest in God 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 unser 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 a 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 we'll turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in
God this is a 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 think into stillness let these periods
of rest and respite reassure your mind that all it's frantic fantasies were but
dreams of fever that has passed away let it be still and thankfully accept is
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
an 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 an energy restored to walk with lightened steps
along the road that suddenly seems as 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 for getting 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 you're distant brothers and your
closest friends did 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 pass 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
you