The Wild Reed: Being One With the Beloved, the Source of All Things

This evening I share my adaptation of Lesson 164, “Now are we one with Him Who is our Source,” from A Course in Miracles – Volume II: Workbook for Students.

I experience in the words of this lesson both a guiding light and a healing balm to all that threatens to obscure the holy peace already (and always) deep within me – deep within all of us. It is the peace of the Beloved One, which is my preferred term for God, the Divine Presence at the heart of all things.

As with the previous adaptations of A Course in Miracles that I’ve shared (see here, here, here and here), if the one below resonates with you, feel free to make it even more meaningful by using your preferred images and words – “God,” “Allah,” “Lord,” “Jesus,” “Holy One,” “Great Spirit,” “Father,” “Mother.” . . . I trust they all serve as different pathways leading up the same holy mountain; or, to use another metaphor, different gateways leading inwards to our center, the deepest part of which we all share. For as Henri Nouwen so beautifully reminds us: “In the depths of my being, I meet my fellow humans with whom I share [all things].”

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The present is the only time there is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there – not in our sight, but in the vision of the Beloved One, the Source of all things. . . . The senseless busy world fades easily away before this vision. Its sounds grow dim. A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct – an ancient call to which the Source within and beyond gives an ancient answer. You will recognize them both. For they are but your answer to the Beloved’s call to you.

. . . There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. All this today you will remember. . . . This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain to reveal what lies beyond them. Now is what is really there made visible, while all the shadows which appeared to hide it sink to obscurity. . . . Now will you see it with the eyes of the Beloved. Now is its transformation clear to you.

This day is sacred to the world. Your vision, given you from far beyond all things within the world, looks back on them in a new light. And what you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. The valuable and valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they are. And what is worthy of your love receives your love, while nothing to be feared remains.

. . . We bless the world as we behold it in the light in which the Beloved One looks on us and offer it the freedom given us through the Beloved’s forgiving vision, now our own. Open the curtain by merely letting go all things you think you want. Your trifling treasures put away and leave a clean and open space within your mind where the Beloved can come and offer you the treasure of transformation. The Beloved One has need of your most holy mind to transform the world.

Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? Is not the Beloved’s vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals? Let not today slip by without the gifts it holds for you receiving your consent and your acceptance. We can change the world if you acknowledge them.

– From Lesson 164
of A Course in Miracles:
Workbook for Students

The Wild Reed

Monday, June 29, 2026

Being One With the Beloved, the Source of All Things

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