Deep down all I wanted, from the very beginning, was the Peace of God…

Well, here I am writing my 3rd blog article… I wish I could say that it is coming easy, but it’s not. I’m back to the same exact spot as last month. Everything I already wrote just wasn’t “right”. How do I define right? Right is when you just know it, deep down, like… This Is It. It’s just a feeling.

So I’m going to do the same thing I did last time, just speak from my heart.

We just got back from the Community Miracles Center ACIM Conference in Las Vegas, it was amazing. Can you imagine 500 ACIM lovers under one roof!!! I met all these wonderful people that until then were in my cyber world. So many hugs, so many smiles, so many people completely lit up with God’s love. It was so awesome. Quite a few people came up to me and said they loved my blog articles, so that gives me courage, the courage to write on. After all, how do you follow a blog post that is written by Lisa Natoli, or Bill Free or Linda Leland? Can you hear my heart racing?

So here goes… before writing this, I just sat in silence and I asked the Holy Spirit to guide me… I gave up all desire to make it sound “good” or “witty” or “funny”. The only word I keep getting is “RAW”. That is what comes through, just be raw, share your experience.
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The next 40-Day Program is coming up in just 16 days. We have almost 1700 people already signed up and I thought, “What do I want to share. What do I really want people to hear?”

I have experiences about my transformation that I want to share about relationships, parenting, motherhood, abundance & tithing, but really, it’s just “TMI” (Too Much Information) all in one blog post. So I think I will make it a series.

I was trying to think of the one most profound thing that I took away from the first 40-Day Program I did with Lisa, and I found it. Deep down all I wanted, from the very beginning was the Peace of God.

But how do you define that? I was so used to thinking of things from the perspective of fixing things… deciding exactly what needed to happen to make everything ok. I was constantly in my head… planning, worrying, trying to fix.

Then I remember Lisa in the 40-Day Program talking about claiming, “I want the Peace of God”. How could it be that simple? How could I just ask for that. I need to ask for ALL these things to be different for me to have the Peace of God. I need my son Cole to be “cured” from his colon issues, I need my son Ryan’s OCD to go away. I need to find a job, I need to get over the embarrassment of losing my marriage and that huge house and my Lexus and that awesome Gluten Free-Vegan Bakery I started. I need to be really skinny again.
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Then I remember Lisa making it so simple, she said:

We don’t have to ask for ANYTHING TO BE DIFFERENT!

We just have to ask for the Peace of God
and then we WILL SEE IT DIFFERENT.

And that is exactly what happened…

I remember what the mornings used to be like when we first lost the house and moved into a rental home. It was total chaos… everyone yelling at each other trying to get out the door for school. Cole would throw a diaper over the balcony from upstairs, of course, right when Ryan was coming out of his room. I was like seriously… there are no accidents… How do you handle a 12-year-old child with Down syndrome still in diapers with a brother who was an absolute germ-a-phobe! Sometimes I would go outside to take the trash out just so I could cry where the kids wouldn’t see me.

So I just took that one tiny, first step… I followed what Lisa said… Ask for the Peace of God, in EVERYTHING! This is available to you too, to all of us, if we just ask.

I am not kidding that when I started using this practice of silently saying “I Want The Peace of God”, inside my head…

No matter WHAT kind of madness was going on… Things started to change!

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When my attitude changed, the whole dynamic of the house changed. I even started singing this obnoxious old song by Minnie Riperton called “Lovin’ You”. You know that one with the really, really high-pitched tune, that says “La, La, La, La”. My kids would shudder when I tried to hit that really high pitch. I would start laughing and tell them to laugh all they want, but in about 5 minutes, they were going to be walking around the house singing it too! And it really happened.

Here is a link if you want to hear the song I am talking about…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0pwJ5PMDg

You will crack up when you hear just how high-pitched this is…

One of the things I always thank Lisa for is creating the 40-Day Program because it opened my whole heart and mind to A Course in Miracles. It was a catalyst and it truly gave my children their mother back. Because I was so lost and in a very deep depression. It was like my spirit was gone, and I was just going through the motions, just trying to survive. I remember my ex-husband coming in the front door to take my daughter Katie to school one morning and he told me that his 95-year-old aunt had just passed away and he said that is how you are going to die, all alone, with the TV remote in your hand. And I thought how could I possibly be asking for this. Well apparently I asked for every bit of it, and this is what it took to wake me up. To wake me up to the truth of who I really am.
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So no matter what may be happening in your life,
no matter what you may be experiencing,
all you have to do is take that first step.

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Start asking for the Peace of God in every moment, and then Lisa took it a step further, she asked us to start saying “I Am The Peace of God”. Because when you change a statement from I want to I am, this is powerful, because you start to truly embody it. It takes us out of our littleness, out of victim mode and catapults us to become the truest expression of ourselves.

This is one of my favorite quotes from the ACIM text about this:

That is why Jesus tells us, “Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go. The instant in which magnitude dawns upon you is but as far away as your desire for it. As long as you desire it not and cherish littleness instead, by so much is it far from you. By so much as you want it will you bring it nearer.” (2:1-4)

Stay tuned for more blog posts in the future!

If you would like to take the 40-Day Program or tell a friend about it, here is the link to sign up:

https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

And Remember… You ARE The Peace of God.

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How bad did I want the Peace of God? REALLY BAD!!!

AND I GOT IT!!!!

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Love,

Judy Morton

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