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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Purpose for the Body

The beautiful relationship you have with all your brothers is a part of you because it is a part of God Himself.

Either there is a gap between you and your brother, or you are as one. ²There is no in between, no other choice, and no allegiance to be split between the two.

…[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. ²It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. ³Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. ⁴It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. ⁵It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. ⁶All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. ⁷No forms of sickness are immune, because the choice cannot be made in terms of form. ⁸The choice of sickness seems to be of form, yet it is one, as is its opposite. ⁹And you are sick or well, accordingly. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.2:1;3:1-2;3:6–4:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego made the body as a substitute identity to replace what God created as His Son. Because of our allegiance to the ego’s desire for specialness, we have accepted the ego’s purpose for the body. With this purpose, the body seems to need constant defense. It never seems to be safe. It is always vulnerable to outside forces that can harm it, age it, and ultimately lead it to death.

Having accepted the body as our identity, the Holy Spirit gives the body another purpose to free it from the ego’s story. When we are willing to join with the Holy Spirit and accept His purpose for the body, we are set on the path of return to our Home in the oneness of God’s Love. This is the journey of healing which dispels the story of vulnerability, limitation, lack and death.

Love cannot die, for It is eternal. Love has no opposite, for only Love is real. Joined with the Holy Spirit’s purpose, the body becomes an aid to teach and learn to that we are God’s Love. We become a healing presence as we join with the Love in every brother.

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