When you say, “Above all else I want to see this table differently,” you are making a commitment to withdraw your preconceived ideas about the table, and open your mind to what it is, and what it is for. You are not defining it in past terms. You are asking what it is, rather than telling it what it is. You are not binding its meaning to your tiny experience of tables, nor are you limiting its purpose to your little personal thoughts.
Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe.
In using the table as a subject for applying the idea for today, you are therefore really asking to see the purpose of the universe. You will be making this same request of each subject that you use in the practice periods. And you are making a commitment to each of them to let its purpose be revealed to you, instead of placing your own judgment upon it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 28, W-pI.28.3;5:3-6:3. See also ACIM Lesson 28 Insights.)
From the moment of our birth into this dream world, we have been learning to identify forms and what we think their purpose is. We believe this ability to label everything and identify its purpose is necessary for our survival. Yet all we are protecting is the “survival” of the image of the body. It is all a mechanism for maintaining the seeming reality of the world of separation.
The Course is guiding us to set aside our labels and our self-determined purposes and open our minds to a new way of seeing. This new way of seeing does not come through the body. It comes into our minds as we set aside our labels — our judgments. The truth of what we are is created by Love and thus has all Its characteristics. Only Love creates and only like Itself. God’s universe, the only real universe, is the universe of Love. The purpose of this universe is to extend Love and only Love eternally.
Thus when we ask to see the table differently we are expressing our willingness to set aside our label and open our minds to see beyond the form. Beyond all form is Love and nothing else. The only meaningful purpose in the universe is to extend Love. It is this we will see when we have set aside our judgment about what any form means and let ourselves be shown the purpose of the Universe.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see past form to the reality of Love everywhere.
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