⁵Sit silently and wait upon your Father. ⁶He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.
²Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. ³We look not backward now. ⁴We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. ⁵Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.
And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your coming. ²We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us. ³We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. ⁴And we know that You will not forget us now. ⁵We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. ⁶We will with You in asking this. ⁷The Father and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. ⁸In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You. (A Course in Miracles Part II Introduction, W-pII.in.5:5-6;6:2–7:8)
Here we have a practice that can lead us to freedom from the ego’s tyranny and return us to the limitless Love of our Creator. Unequivocal commitment to this dedication will awaken us from the dream of separation. The 144 lessons of Workbook Part II are training to help us open our minds and hearts to the Will of God. They teach us that we really will the same as God. Our will is His Will.
We have been so enamored with the ego’s offering of specialness that accepting God’s Will seems to be loss. But acceptance of His Will lets all illusions go and returns us to our eternal Home in God. This is all we really want. It is the only Will that will satisfy our need. It is the culmination of our misled search to find happiness in the ego’s dream.
The lessons in Part II are designed to give us practice and understanding that will help us see that the world holds nothing that we want. The Love of God is all we need. This prayer of dedication could be repeated daily as an affirmation of our commitment to awaken from the dream of specialness.
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