How is Peace Possible in This World?

This is the question everyone must ask.

Certainly peace seems to be impossible, here. Yet the Word of God promises other things that seem impossible, as well as this.

His Word has promised peace.

It has also promised that there
is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man's inheritance.

The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world.

Again we come to the question of judgment.

This time ask yourself whether your judgment or the Word of God is more likely to be true. For they say different things about the world, and things so opposite that it is pointless to try to reconcile them.

God offers the world salvation; your judgment would condemn it.

God says there is no death; your judgment sees but death as the inevitable end of life.

God's Word assures you that He loves the world; your judgment says it is unlovable.

Who is right?

For one of you is wrong.

It must be so.

The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made.

These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it.

Into this strange and paradoxical situation--one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible--God has sent His Judgment to answre yours.

Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. And through this substitution is the ununderstandable made understandable.

How is peace possible in this world?

In your judgment it is not possible and can never be possible.

But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

Peace is impossible to those who look on war.

Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace.

How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible.

It is the world you see that is impossible.

Yet has God's Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace, and peace descends on it in joyous answer.

Peace now belongs here because a Thought of God has entered.

What else but a Thought of God turns hell to Heaven merely by being what It is?

The earth bows down before Its gracious Presence, and It leans down in answer to raise it up again.

Now is the question different. It is no longer,

"Can peace be possible in this world?"

But instead,

"Is it not impossible that peace be absent here?"

Salvation is undoing. If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. This one appears and disappears in death; that one is doomed to suffering and loss. Salvation is undoing of all this. And constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead. ACIM Chap 31 Recognizing the Spirit

It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him. It is impossible that the happenings that come to him were not his choice...No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it, outside of which is nothing. ACIM Chap 21 Responsibility for Sight

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain...all to be given you. Say only this: “I AM responsible for what I see. I chose the feelings I experience, and I decided on the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I asked for, and received as I had asked.” ACIM Chap 21 - Responsibility for Sight