Every day brings fresh chaos. Political turmoil that has people choosing sides and attacking each other. Global conflicts that break our hearts. Personal upheavals that shake our foundation. The world seems to have gone completely mad, and we’re all trying to find solid ground.

I talk with people daily about how they’re feeling about the world’s upsets. Friends in Ukraine. Friends from Russia. Friends from all over this beautiful, troubled planet. Everyone’s struggling with the intensity.

But here’s what I’ve discovered: We’re never upset for the reason we think. A Course in Miracles teaches us this fundamental truth, and once you really get it, everything changes.

The Real Source of Our Pain

We think we’re victims of the world’s chaos. We think we’re upset because of what “they” did or what’s happening “out there.” But ACIM shows us we’re upset because we’re invested in judgments, opinions, attack thoughts.

We’re upset because we’re making this human experience real rather than recognizing it as a projection of our mind.

I know that’s a big pill to swallow. Bus-sized, as I like to say. But you don’t have to understand it completely. You just have to be willing to consider it might be true.

When Creating Chaos Is Your Shield.

I’ll share something personal: I used to be the queen of creating chaos. As an Enneagram Eight, when I felt insecure (which was often), I’d stir up drama. Create a distraction. Anything to keep people from seeing that underneath my confident exterior, I was drowning in self-doubt. I’d create chaos because in creating chaos, nobody’s paying attention to me feeling insecure, nobody’s paying attention to me feeling vulnerable.

Nobody’s paying attention to me not knowing what I’m doing because I have diverted their attention to the chaos.

Maybe you don’t create chaos, but do you get pulled into it? Do you find yourself glued to the news, analyzing every disaster, trying to figure out who’s to blame? That’s the ego’s game – it keeps us distracted from the only thing that matters: our connection in God.

Your Real Goal.

ACIM Lesson 258 reminds us: “Let me remember that my goal is God.” Not fixing the world. Not managing the chaos. Not even understanding why everything’s falling apart. Our goal is God.

But oh, how we resist this! We think having God as our goal means giving up our lives. I used to fear it meant no more pleasure, no more fun, no more anything enjoyable.

The truth? “God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.” That’s from ACIM Lesson 101. Perfect happiness—not the conditional kind the world offers, but the real deal.

Our Pathway Through.

So how do we find refuge when the world’s gone mad? Not by fighting—I learned that from growing up in the civil rights and peace movements. The means to get to peace must be peaceful. ACIM teaches us that the ends is in the means.

Instead, we work in the invisible realm. Through forgiveness. Through choosing love moment by moment. Through remembering that “when I am healed I am not healed alone.”

Let’s give up all the ways we participate in the madness. From arguing on social media, to gossiping about politicians, to catastrophizing about the future. That’s got to be our baseline spiritual practice—choosing peace in each moment.

In my Quantum Counseling Training Intensive, we go deep into these practices. Because once you know how to find your own refuge, you can help others find theirs. Once you remember your goal is God, you can help others remember too.

Your Invitation to Peace.

Place your hand on your heart right now. Take a breath. Feel the chaos of the world, yes, but also feel something deeper—that unchangeable peace that’s always available.

The world may be insane, but you don’t have to join it. Your refuge isn’t in analyzing the chaos or fighting against it. Your refuge is in remembering your goal.

And our goal is God. It always has been and it always will be. Everything else? It’s just what’s happening while we remember our way home.

That’s not spiritual bypassing. That’s the most practical thing I can tell you. Because when God is our goal, we can work for peace without being destroyed by the chaos.

We can love without conditions.

We can be the light the world so desperately needs.

Together we remember we’re all in this together.

In my Quantum Counseling Training Intensive, the main thing we work on is eliminating worthiness issues so that people can live their calling, help more people, be more prosperous and share their gifts and talents in ways that are profoundly healing to themselves and others.

My next Quantum Counseling Training Intensive begins Friday, October 31.

This intensive training is for you if:

• You have an interest in seeing if spiritual counseling is a possible career for you.
• You’d like to improve your counseling and compassionate listening skills.
• You’d just like to build your confidence and Self-esteem.
• You’d like to increase your intuition.
• You’d like to get continuing education or licensing units.