There’s a sentence I learned to say a hundred times a day. Sometimes more.

I could choose peace instead of this.

I’d say it when someone cut me off in traffic. I’d say it when an email landed wrong. I’d say it when the old familiar resentments started looping in my mind again.

I had to say it that often because my mind was so trained to choose conflict that peace felt foreign.

A Course in Miracles tells us:  “Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is.”

We’re not here to accumulate spiritual information. We’re here to know peace. Yet peace isn’t something we earn or wait for. It’s the one thing we keep giving up the moment we choose to be right, choose to argue, choose to hold the grievance one more time.

Peace is always available. It’s still ours.

Here’s something incredibly helpful to understand: the Higher Holy Spirit Self can’t take from us anything we won’t let go of. Yet the moment we say I’d like to release this, the moment we open our hand and loosen our grip, the healing begins.

The practice is simple. Every time we don’t feel peaceful, we have the opportunity to say:

I could choose peace instead of this. And I do.

That’s it. That’s the faster path.

Not analysis. Not figuring out why. Just willingness.

Here’s the gift: we don’t have to feel guilty about all the moments we didn’t choose peace. 

The Higher Holy Spirit Self will undo all the consequences of those wrong decisions. Our job is just to choose again, in this now, and this now, and this now.

We have a free choice in every moment. Let’s use it.

STARTS TODAY:  If you’d like to step into this level of Peace practice with me, I’d like to invite you to our FREE 8 Classes Living A Course in Miracles – Cultivating a Peaceful Mind with ACIM Teachers Jon Mundy, Mark Anthony Lord, Lisa Natoli, Rev. Myron Jones and me! Click here to learn more. Four days of choosing peace together, in community. It’s all free, and it’s a beautiful way to begin.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE:  The Appointed Friend What if the very thing I love most is the thing that’s hurting me? I sat with Chapter 26, Section 6 of A Course in Miracles this week, and one sentence grabbed my interest. I share the story of my own bottoming-out moment – when something I’d poured years into didn’t go the way I hoped – and what I had to learn the hard way about attachment, illusion, and the friend I’d forgotten I already have. Why does almost everything we strive for eventually disappoint us? And what does it actually take to stop digging up the seed before it has time to grow? Listen with me on Episode 736.