I do not know what anything is for.
Purpose is meaning. ²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything.
You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. ²These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. ³This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. ⁴As a result, you are bound to misuse it. ⁵When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.
Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. ²Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. ³In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. ⁴And thus you do not know what anything is for.
It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. ²The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. (A Course in Miracles, W-25.1:1-2;2,3;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 25 Insights.)
An initial step to finding peace of mind is to acknowledge that we do not know what anything is for. With this recognition, we are open to learning a new purpose. This “new” purpose is actually the only purpose we can ever have as God’s Son. God gave us His purpose: To extend Love and nothing else.
When something disturbs our peace of mind, we can remind ourselves that we do not know what the situation is for. Then we can ask the Holy Spirit, “What is this for?” With an open mind, we will be led to extend Love in a form that is helpful in the world. Love answers every call for Love. The call may appear to be coming from another, but it always starts with our own call for Love, represented by our misinterpretation of the situation.
As we let our mind be opened to answers for calls for Love, our minds are healed. We learn that we are Love and nothing else. We accept our unity with God’s Love.
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