I am never in danger in any place I go.
1. Your Son is safe wherever he may be,I
for You are there with him.
²He need only call upon Your Name,
and he will remember his safety and Your Love,
for they are one.
³How can he fear, or doubt,
or fail to see that he cannot suffer,
be in danger, or be unhappy,
when he belongs to You,
and is both loving and beloved,
in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?
2. And that is truly where we are.
²No storms can enter the holy haven of our home.
³In God we are secure.
⁴For what can come to threaten God Himself, or terrify what is forever a part of Him?
I This world is an illusion, and your personal life is a dream. Your true life is the one you have in God, where you create eternally, for to live is to create, to extend, to give, and to love. That is why, in truth, you are never in danger: your perfect condition is unchangeable.
Yet you are free to form any opinion you wish about yourself, and those opinions—ever shifting—determine your states of mind. The apparent conflict arises between the image you make of yourself and the truth God knows of you. The purpose of the Atonement is to unite your will with God’s, for in reality they are the same. The Course asks only that you stop telling yourself stories that are not true. Sooner or later you will have to choose between “being right” and “being happy.”
The phrase “I am in danger nowhere in the world” is as true now as it has ever been. If you read it in the past tense—“I have never been in danger anywhere I have been”—you will see that it holds: what you truly are remains untouched. The only thing that ever seemed “in danger” were the false ideas you held about yourself—your definitions, your attributes, your circumstances. All of that is changeable and therefore destined to disappear.
You, on the other hand, remain unchanging. The only real thing in you—your Self—has never been threatened and never will be. The sooner you cease identifying with the transitory, the sooner you will recognize that your safety is absolute. Believe you are safe and you will experience it; believe otherwise, and you will live in fear, anger, and attack. The world you see is a dream reflecting your beliefs: master them, and grant yourself peace, even within this illusory scene.
Today remember that nothing real can be threatened, and that you are forever an inseparable part of God.
I am in danger nowhere in the world
In Your embrace, Father, I live secure and without fear.