Workbook · Part I
Lesson 185
I want the peace of God.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “I want the peace of God.” In ordinary English: If you want the peace of God, it will cost the war you are still enjoying.
Peace is treated as a prize after they change, after you win, after the picture improves. This lesson says peace is available instead of this — this spike, this news, this face. Happiness is not a mood you manufacture. Misery is not holiness.
You do not have to believe it first. You use the words on one real judgment — of someone, of yourself, of a situation — and then you take the next ordinary step.
This is not saying
This is not pretending you feel calm. You may still feel the wave. You stop waiting for the world to go first before you are allowed to rest.
Why this can change a day
If peace depends on them, they own your day. If peace is a way of looking, then a meeting, a kitchen, a text, and a self-judgment are all eligible. That is a different life, not a different philosophy.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
A text that did not come. You are already in court about what it means.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I want the peace of God.” You are fighting a picture. Come back to this hour. If a fact must be asked, ask only the fact. Leave the case.
Toward yourself
You compare yourself to someone ‘more spiritual,’ more settled, further along.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I want the peace of God.” Function is not a ranking. Do the next hidden kindness. Their path is not your wage.
At work, at home, or in a situation
A task looks like a verdict on you — if this fails, I am that.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I want the peace of God.” Begin the task as if you had not already lost. The idea is not a substitute for the work. It is a substitute for using the work as a self.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
I want peace, and I want them to lose, and I want the picture. I can have all three.
Jesus’s way
I want the peace of God. Say it only if you mean it, because it will cost the war. If you want peace and the grievance, you want the grievance.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #390
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 185
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- I want the peace of God.
- Say it only if you mean it, because it will cost the war.
- He is kind and severe: if you want peace and the grievance, you want the grievance.
How to sit today
Part I · Peace
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- Practice periods devoted to a careful search of what you still want instead of peace, plus the day’s usual longer sittings
- How long
- Keep the morning and evening times you have already learned (fifteen minutes is the current standard unless a lesson shortens it)
How
- Search your mind for the dreams you cherish still. Peace of God is wanted only if it is wanted more than these.
- Each cherished outcome is a rival. Name it. Choose.
Longer sitting
Morning and evening — fifteen minutes is the current standard
- Today’s idea is: “I want the peace of God.”
- Search your mind for the dreams you cherish still. Peace of God is wanted only if it is wanted more than these.
- Each cherished outcome is a rival. Name it. Choose.
- Say, slowly: “I want the peace of God.”
Short / hourly
Hourly remembrance
- Say, slowly: “I want the peace of God.”
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
I want the peace of God. Say it only if you mean it, because it will cost the war. He is kind and severe: if you want peace and the grievance, you want the grievance.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
Polarity is a want, made consistent. Peace is the service-to-others want without the martyrdom story.
Open streamRueckert
Q'uo returns to desire as the engine. Purify the want; the path appears. Lesson 185 is that purification in one line.
Open stream