The Christ in you inhabits not a body. ²Yet He is in you. ³And thus it must be that you are not within a body. ⁴What is within you cannot be outside. ⁵And it is certain that you cannot be apart from what is at the very center of your life. ⁶What gives you life cannot be housed in death. ⁷No more can you. ⁸Christ is within a frame of Holiness whose only purpose is that He may be made manifest to those who know Him not, that He may call to them to come to Him and see Him where they thought their bodies were. ⁹Then will their bodies melt away, that they may frame His Holiness in them.
No one who carries Christ in him can fail to recognize Him everywhere. ²Except in bodies. ³And as long as he believes he is in a body, where he thinks he is [Christ] cannot be. ⁴And so he carries Him unknowingly, and does not make Him manifest.
The body needs no healing. ²But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! ³And it is here [in the mind] that Christ sets forth the remedy. ⁴His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the Holiness that shines from Him. ⁵And nothing that the body says or does but makes [Christ] manifest. ⁶To those who know Him not [the body] carries Him in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. ⁷Such is the mission that your brother has for you. ⁸And such it must be that your mission is for him. A Course in Miracles, T-25.in.1:1–2:4;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The Course tells us to ask of everything, “What is it for?” This includes asking, “What is the body for?” While specialness is our wish, the body is used to maintain the illusion that separation is real. The body cannot see beyond the images of the world which seem to make separation real. This is its purpose as long as we choose the body as our identity.
The body is given another purpose when we choose to accept the Christ That dwells in our mind. Christ is our true Self, the Son of God, forever united with our Creator. When we choose our true Self as our Identity we manifest Christ in the world. We become messengers of Love and peace. We walk in joy, for we have accepted the truth of What we are. When we demonstrate Christ to our brothers we help them see Him in themselves and remember Christ in our own mind.
Today we choose to identify with Christ in our mind and let Love be our Guide. With this dedication, we will bring healing to our world, for we accept Christ’s healing in our mind.
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