Dwelling in Peace

I dwell in peace, knowing God is here and God is good.

Sometimes I search for God, though God is in my mind. Sometimes I wait for truth, though truth is in my heart. Sometimes I allow appearances to obscure the beauty of the world.

But not today. Today I know I need do nothing and I need go nowhere, to experience God’s love. For wherever I am, closer than my breath is God Himself with His arms around me. I am safe and secure in knowing this. I am blessed by what is true.

May I not be tempted by the bleakness of the world to think that God is gone, or lured by the thinking of the world to ever doubt love’s power. God is here, love is real, and I am safe. These things I know and will not forget. And so it is.

Amen.

– Marianne Williamson
Excerpted from A Year of Miracles:
Daily Devotions and Reflections
HarperOne, 2013

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• The Source Is Within You
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• Returning the Mind to God
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Being the Light
• Cultivating Stillness
• Inner Peace
• Be In My Mind, Beloved One
• Your Peace Is With Me, Beloved One
• You Are My Goal, Beloved One
• All ’Round Me Burdens Seem to Fall
• No Other Time, No Other Place
• Home To Myself

Image: “Self Portrait (12/11/22)” by Michael J. Bayly.