The Peace of Home

 

“Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time?”

[ACIM, Ch 15.i.1.1]

 

First in eternity is Infinity, Who lives, creates, and expands endlessly in His Love and Joy, and Who is also called Heaven or Home. He can create absolutely anything He conceives, without any limitations, far beyond human comprehension. But He does not wish to be alone. It would be wonderful for Him to share all His Creation.

Thus, Infinity creates an extension like Himself within Himself, thereby becoming “Father” through the “Son” He has created [the terms, of course, do not refer to gender in this context]. The Father and the Son are not separate from one another; rather, what belongs to the Father also belongs to the Son. The Will of Infinity, of God, is therefore His Son, who possesses everything.

In this way, They dwell together in eternal joy in the beautiful Kingdom where you truly are. Heaven – oneness, perfection, Bliss, changeless, eternal, Love, Paradise… Life is indescribably wonderful, a continuous euphoria, and abundance truly radiates there. You have an abundance of everything, and you do not have to be alone, because that was not the Father’s will.

In Heaven, there is all you have ever loved and all you love, all that Life values, and nothing else. You are there. Life gave you value when creating you. The tables are laden with royal feasts, drawn from the Kingdom’s endless and bountiful harvest to nourish you fully. You are free to simply be, and you are loved just as you are. The Creator of Heaven guarantees that you will have a dwelling place forever in the Splendor you call Home. The Kingdom will always belong to you, and neither the Creator’s love for you nor your love for the Creator will diminish even the slightest bit, not even for a single moment, ever.

Constant deep peace and inexhaustible joy are completely natural. The Creator cares for you eternally so perfectly that you stand in need of nothing at all. Celebrations are held in the style of Home, and there is every kind of goodness you could possibly imagine. And you have complete freedom to create, without limitations, whatever you love.

Heaven has always existed, just like its Creator, Who has given you everything, including the gift of free will. Aside from that, nothing else exists. What else could one possibly want other than perfect love and peace, which already are?

Heaven is within you, and when you look deep within and find It, you will realize that no metaphor can compare to what It truly is. It’s a curious thing that the most real thing of all cannot even be seen with physical sight, and yet It can, and indeed does, come to a peaceful mind.

 

“Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? How it would feel? Try to remember when there was a time – perhaps a minute, maybe even less – when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe. Then try to picture what it would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to eternity.

Then let the sense of quiet that you felt be multiplied a hundred times and then be multiplied another hundred more. And now you have a hint, not more than just the faintest intimation of the state your mind will rest in when the truth has come.”

[ACIM L107.2–3]

 

translated from Finnish
by Alexandra Hiltunen