So many people wake up already tired, the weight of the day pressing down before it even begins. Work, traffic, relationships, world problems… but what if, in the middle of that heaviness, someone casually opens ACIM on page 625 and reads:
“Today I will make no decisions by myself.” (ACIM T.30.I.2)
It almost feels dangerous. They may ask themselves : “What will happen if I don’t control everything?” But curiosity wins… the text continues:
“If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.”
Immediately the mind starts to imagine: Maybe the factory will be full of happy people…maybe the sun will shine all day…maybe the news will announce that wars are over, hunger is gone, and peace has finally arrived.
Filled with good energy, they stand up and think: “This is the day that will be given me.”
It sounds wonderful and very easy. But then reality taps on the shoulder.
A driver cuts them off and they start shouting. A colleague frowns at the wrong moment. A stranger looks odd and their mind comments without mercy.
There it is again… the old habit… the critical voice… the quick judgment.
Now the answer will provoke attack, unless they quickly straighten out their mind to want an answer that will work. And they remember once again:
“Today I will make no decisions by myself.
If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.”
And for a moment the tightness begins to ease.
…..If this has happened to you, in that ease ask yourself: what kind of day did I ask for?
A smoother day, no problems, health, a beautiful body, success, money, sunshine… no wars?
Do you see that those answers are all conditions we attach to happiness? Isn’t that exactly the problem? The problem that we have set up rules for ourselves about what a “good day” should look like? And exactly those rules block the real Joy, because we are still asking the ego to decide.
That’s when another step comes… the realization:
“I have no questions. I forgot what to decide.”
When you say: “I have no question. I forgot what I was to decide,” you undo those self-made rules. You are really saying: I don’t know what happiness is. Let me be shown what I truly want.
And what you truly want is not a sunny day or an end to war (as beautiful as that may sound), but ‘Inner Peace’.
The day the Holy Spirit gives you is always a day of peace, regardless of circumstances. It is the experience of being carried, of not deciding alone, and of being able to look without judgment.
It feels like a reset button. A doorway back to peace.
From here, you can be honest and say: “At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now.”
And with that honesty, the path opens wider: “And so I hope I have been wrong.”
Wrong about what peace requires. Wrong about what a “good day” must look like. Wrong about needing the world to change before you could rest.
And then the surprise reveals itself:
What you truly want is the kind of peace that does not depend on circumstances.
And with that comes freedom. “I want another way to look at this.”
Now the world around you begins to soften. The noise of traffic is just sound.
The colleague’s frown is just a passing cloud.
Even the news, heavy as it seems, no longer defines your state of mind.
By the time evening comes, you are lighter.
The world looks the same, but you are not the same.
You didn’t fight the day. You were carried.
And as the stars appear, one last invitation rises: “Perhaps there is another way to look at this. What can I lose by asking?”
And in that asking, you discover what you truly wanted all along:
Not control, not conditions, but the quiet certainty that you are not alone, because in every moment of surrender, the Holy Spirit is with you, Love never left you.
Always remember: what is Real cannot be threatened.
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The Pocket Wave (a quick reminder you can carry into the day):
Begin: Today I will make no decisions by myself.
Trust: If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.
Notice when upset: I must have decided wrongly.
Reset: I have no question. I forgot what to decide.
Honesty: At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now.
Openness: And so I hope I have been wrong.
Willingness: I want another way to look at this.
Invitation: Perhaps there is another way. What can I lose by asking?
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A new beginning. And it is always available.
With love and light,
G.