In my defenselessness my safety lies.

6-2-2026

“Defenselessness is strength.” [CE W-153.6:1]

“God is the strength in which I trust.” [CE W-47:1]

“God’s teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no dreams that need defense against the truth. They do not try to make themselves. Their joy comes from their understanding Who created them. And does what God created need defense?” [CE M-4.VI.1:1-5]

It is through reading the ‘Manual for Teachers’, chapter 4, that I understand that trust in God is a prerequisite to defenselessness. The quote from the Manual above says to me that I am strong because I am as God created me so I can be confident in myself and not defensive.

Another way to consider putting my trust in God is because I know that I cannot see all sides a situation so I will trust God’s plan for the outcome, it will be better than mine.

The CAC Daily Meditation email this morning offered the following quote:

“I will live by the best I can decern today. Tomorrow I may find out I was wrong. Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.” ~ Verna Dozier.

I enjoyed Jesus’ references to children’s games in this lesson. When we trust in God, we trust in more than this. The world becomes not what we want, nor do we identify ourselves with what it offers us. What then would we need to defend when conflict arises with another. When I know I am beloved of God, what importance does worldly exchanges have on my identity? What does it matter my religion, my nation, my political values, I have dropped them as ways that I identify myself.

Do I really want to keep playing this tired old game whose outcomes are hurt and guilt? I am more than this.

So, my strength and safety can come from knowing who I truly am and releasing the false identity, knowing that I don’t see what is true in this world, and trusting God’s way and the guidance that comes to provide the most benevolent outcome for all.

6-2-2024

“For you will not see the light, until you offer it to all your brothers. As they take it from your hands, so will you recognize it as your own.”

I woke with a full heart this morning. It being Sunday, I spent time texting with family and friends offering Love across the miles. I was not lessened by all that I shared. If anything, my heart is more full.

“Salvation can be thought of as a game that happy children play.”

I am all into the joyous games. I let go of the competitive games, wanting to be seen as good. Being as God created me gives me all that I desire: Love, joy, peace, truth, strength, and community!

I am as God created me … Loving, Loved, Beloved.

6-2-2023

“Defenselessness can never be attacked, because it recognizes strength so great attack is folly, or a silly game a tired child might play when he becomes too sleepy to remember what he wants.”

I have been noticing lately that my arguments and defensive spoken points never say what I truly want. My mind plans for difficult conversations by searching for good arguments that describe possible problems that may lie ahead for those I care about. My first word offerings are never to just say how I feel, what I desire, or how I want things to go. I believe that coming into a state of defenselessness can bring forward my inner truth to speak of what I want.

6-2-2022

“In time, with practice, you will never cease to think of Him, and hear His loving voice guiding your footsteps into quiet ways.”

The practice carries me to where I want to be.

‘Nearer my God to thee.’