Specialness is a lack of trust in anyone except yourself. Faith is invested in yourself alone.
What could the purpose of the body be but specialness? And it is this that makes it frail and helpless in its own defense. [The body] was conceived to make you frail and helpless. The goal of separation is its curse. Yet bodies have no goal. Purpose is of the mind. And minds can change as they desire. What [minds] are, and all their attributes, they cannot change. But what [mnds] hold as purpose can be changed, and body states must shift accordingly. Of itself the body can do nothing. See it as means to hurt, and it is hurt. See it as means to heal, and it is healed.
The purpose of attack is in the mind, and its effects are felt but where it is [in the mind]. Nor is the mind limited; so must it be that harmful purpose hurts the mind as one. Nothing could make less sense to specialness. Nothing could make more sense to miracles. For miracles are merely change of purpose from hurt to healing. This shift in purpose does “endanger” specialness, but only in the sense that all illusions are “threatened” by the truth. [Illusions] will not stand before [truth].
Only this is certain in this shifting world that has no meaning in reality: When peace is not with you entirely, and when you suffer pain of any kind, you have beheld some sin within your brother, and have rejoiced at what you thought was there. (A Course in Miracles,T-24.IV.1:1;2;3:5-11;5:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Any lack of peace is a sure sign that we have seen guilt in a brother, which is a projection of guilt we see in ourselves. If we are mindful of any disturbance to our peace, we can use this disturbance to remind ourselves to ask for Holy Spirit’s help to forgive.
As we bring our perceptions to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive His replacement, we will learn to see past the ego’s images of separation to the eternal presence of limitless Love. We will see past perceptions of guilt to the recognition of the reality of innocence. This is how we give the body the purpose of healing in place of the ego’s purpose to harm. This is how we become miracle minded.
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