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Our Dedication to Awaken to Love

⁵Sit silently and wait upon your Father. ⁶He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

²Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. ³We look not backward now. ⁴We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. ⁵Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.

And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your coming. ²We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us. ³We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. ⁴And we know that You will not forget us now. ⁵We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. ⁶We will with You in asking this. ⁷The Father and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. ⁸In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You. (A Course in Miracles Part II Introduction, W-pII.in.5:5-6;6:2–7:8)

Here we have a practice that can lead us to freedom from the ego’s tyranny and return us to the limitless Love of our Creator. Unequivocal commitment to this dedication will awaken us from the dream of separation. The 144 lessons of Workbook Part II are training to help us open our minds and hearts to the Will of God. They teach us that we really will the same as God. Our will is His Will.

We have been so enamored with the ego’s offering of specialness that accepting God’s Will seems to be loss. But acceptance of His Will lets all illusions go and returns us to our eternal Home in God. This is all we really want. It is the only Will that will satisfy our need. It is the culmination of our misled search to find happiness in the ego’s dream.

The lessons in Part II are designed to give us practice and understanding that will help us see that the world holds nothing that we want. The Love of God is all we need. This prayer of dedication could be repeated daily as an affirmation of our commitment to awaken from the dream of specialness.

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Choosing Truth Instead of Illusions

Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. ²Specialness always makes comparisons. ³It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for, and keeping clear in sight, all lacks it can perceive. ⁴This does it seek, and this it looks upon. ⁵And always whom it thus diminishes would be your savior, had you not chosen to make of him a tiny measure of your specialness instead. ⁶Against the littleness you see in him you stand as tall and stately, clean and honest, pure and unsullied, by comparison with what you see. ⁷Nor do you understand it is yourself that you diminish thus.

Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace.

⁵The special messages the special hear convince them they are different and apart; each in his special sins and “safe” from love, which does not see his specialness at all. ⁶Christ’s vision is their “enemy,” for it sees not what they would look upon, and it would show them that the specialness they think they see is an illusion.

What would they see instead? ²The shining radiance of the Son of God, so like his Father that the memory of Him springs instantly to mind. …⁵This is the only “cost” of truth: You will no longer see what never was, nor hear what makes no sound. ⁶Is it a sacrifice to give up nothing, and to receive the Love of God forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-24.II.1:1–2:1;5:5–6:2,5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Every moment in the world we are making comparisons. We identify an object by comparing it with its background to distinguish it as different. We compare the objects colors and shadows to determine its form and identify what it is.

We learn to use comparisons to function in the world starting the day we are born. It is a habitual process that we are rarely conscious of doing. But it is a mechanism of the ego that keeps it front and center in our mind as a barrier against the uniform oneness of Love, the only truth.

The way out of this self-made prison of limitations is to quiet our mind. As we welcome peace, we welcome Christ’s vision as our Source of information. Instead of showing us the differences the ego would have us see, Christ’s vision sees past the illusions to the Love that binds us eternally with every brother and our Creator. With this process we accept God’s gift of all of His Love and dismiss the ego as meaningless, with nothing of value to offer.

We choose truth today instead of illusions.

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Accepting God’s Strength and Love as Ours

Let us not fight our function. ²We did not establish it. ³It is not our idea. ⁴The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. ⁵All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. ⁶What is given us to do, we have the strength to do. ⁷Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.

All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God’s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do. ²We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us. ³We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. ⁴And if He deems us worthy, so we are. ⁵It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.

Do as God’s Voice directs. ²And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is that asks, and who would make denial. ³Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? ⁴The Voice that speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? ⁵Let not [ego’s] voice direct you. ⁶Hear instead a certain Voice, which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.

⁴He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. ⁵For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 186, W-186.2;4;12;13:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

A sense of unworthiness and simultaneous arrogance are aspects of the ego thought system. The ego tries to convince us that we are unworthy of fulfilling the function God has given us. But if God has determined we are worthy, then it must be arrogance to believe God is wrong about us.

Our only difficulty in accepting the function God has given us is our belief in the ego as our identity. Being the denial of God, the ego is threatened by God. It feels powerless in His presence, which it is. The ego’s only seeming power comes from our belief. We are not left powerless in our mistaken belief because God has given us the means to undo our mistakes.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, He gives us His strength and Christ’s vision to show us the truth of Love beyond the ego’s deception. The Holy Spirit’s mission is to help us fulfill the function given us by God—to extend His Love as He has given It to us. This is our practice today.

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