I am the light of the world. How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! Let me be still before my holiness. In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. In its peace let me remember Who I am.
Some specific forms for applying this idea when special difficulties seem to arise might be:
Let me not obscure the light of the world in me.
Let the light of the world shine through this appearance.
This shadow will vanish before the light.Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. It is through accepting my function that I will see the light in me. And in this light will my function stand clear and perfectly unambiguous before my sight. My acceptance does not depend on my recognizing what my function is, for I do not yet understand forgiveness. Yet I will trust that, in the light, I will see it as it is.
Specific forms for using this idea might include:
Let this help me learn what forgiveness means.
Let me not separate my function from my will.
I will not use this for an alien purpose.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 81, W-pI.81. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)
The Course uses “Light” as a symbol for the oneness of God’s Love. God’s Son is an extension of His Love and remains part of Love’s Light. Love is eternally changeless. Therefore this Light extends eternally. Only our choice to deny our unity with Love makes the eternal Light unknown to us. The wish to be a separate identity is alien to God’s Will that Love extends eternally without limit.
While we experience ourselves in a world of the ego’s limitations, our function is to let go of those limitations. Because of our choice to identify with the ego, we need help from outside the ego’s thought system to let go of (forgive) our self-imposed limits.
Accepting the help of the Holy Spirit to let go of our chosen limits is our only meaningful function in the world. Each time we accept our function by accepting Holy Spirit’s help, we pull away the curtains that have hidden the Light of Love from our awareness. Though this practice we bring the Light of Love to the world.
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