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The Obstacles to Peace

Chapter 19 — The Attainment of Peace

Peace is reclaimed as the Holy Spirit reinterprets guilt and fear, including fear of God and the lure of death, and forgiveness dissolves specialness to restore joining.

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★ ZenithMake peace your home; let it pass every obstacle and extend. ★ Zenith
Forgive the symbol of sin; chains fall away as you offer and receive.
Peace is resisted while guilt is sought as proof and protection.
Make your relationship a resting place for the Holy Spirit’s purpose.
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Fear’s messengers search for guilt and make love seem dangerous.
▲ MilestoneFinal obstacle: a veil of fear before Christ’s face. ▲ Milestone
▲ MilestoneDeath is feared and desired: the ego’s dark “savior” from love. ▲ Milestone
Make the relationship the home of peace that extends to all.
The body tempts by promising salvation in form.
Peace cannot leave you; you give salvation by forgiving your brother.
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The obstacles to peace are the ego’s monuments to death.
Beyond each obstacle, Love attracts you past guilt and fear.
A tiny barrier becomes amnesia; peace returns when the wall is undone.
Peace radiates by joining; you lift your eyes in faith together.
Sin’s logic demands death; forgiveness undoes the whole story.
Obstacles to peace are barriers against God’s one Will for brothers.
Atonement isn’t paid in death; receive its chalice through your brother.
What you send is the atmosphere you meet again.
Gracious sight receives gratitude; peace spreads as giving and receiving.
Peace seems costly only to the body-idol; release is not sacrifice.
A cherished little attack builds a wall that blocks peace’s extension.
A tiny illusion of sin forms a fading wall of shadows.
Every miracle gently wins you from guilt’s appeal to love’s.
Your chosen feeling dispatches messengers that return with matching proof.
Minor
Let the eyes of faith see innocence; trust the eternal, not the body.
Nothing threatens innocence: see your brother without guilt.
Touch the brother with forgiveness and end the guilt procession.
Peace returns because union was hidden, not broken.
Punishment turns healing into murder—and keeps fear in charge.
Gracious eyes see innocence first, and peace becomes possible.
Easter without death: forgiveness replaces the sacrifice story.
A little wall of hatred blocks peace more than you think.
The body transmits without meaning; your purpose supplies the message.
Fearful symbols lose power when you stop making them the cause.
Let peace extend through you; every situation can be used for it.
Fear’s veil lifts, and the Father is gladly remembered.
When peace includes everyone, seeing is no longer needed—only knowing.
Peace returns when you choose the messenger, the purpose, and the friend.
Messages of safety: peace surrounds the shared forgiven world.
A shared feast of gentleness: grace said together in the Holy Instant.
Body as salvation-idol: peace seems like dispossession and loss.
Peace is complete only when it is extended to everyone you see.
Teach freedom to learn it: giving faith and mercy returns as release.
Echo
Hand over the obstacle: let it be judged for you and used for peace.
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