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Lesson 29 2026

God is in everything I see.
1. The idea for today explains why you can see all purpose in everything. ²It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself. ³And it explains why nothing you see means anything. ⁴In fact, it explains every idea we have used thus far, and all subsequent ones as well. ⁵Today’s idea is the whole basis for vision.
2. You will probably find this idea very difficult to grasp at this point. ²You may find it silly, irreverent, senseless, funny and even objectionable. ³Certainly God is not in a table, for example, as you see it. ⁴Yet we emphasized yesterday that a table shares the purpose of the universe. ⁵And what shares the purpose of the universe shares the purpose of its Creator.
3. Try then, today, to begin to learn how to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness. ²You do not see them now. ³Would you know what is in them? ⁴Nothing is as it appears to you. ⁵Its holy purpose stands beyond your little range. ⁶When vision has shown you the holiness that lights up the world, you will understand today’s idea perfectly. ⁷And you will not understand how you could ever have found it difficult.
4. Our six two-minute practice periods for today should follow a now familiar pattern: Begin with repeating the idea to yourself, and then apply it to randomly chosen subjects about you, naming each one specifically. ²Try to avoid the tendency toward self-directed selection, which may be particularly tempting in connection with today’s idea because of its wholly alien nature. ³Remember that any order you impose is equally alien to reality.
5. Your list of subjects should therefore be as free of self-selection as possible. ²For example, a suitable list might include:
³God is in this coat hanger.
⁴God is in this magazine.
⁵God is in this finger.
⁶God is in this lamp.
⁷God is in that body.
⁸God is in that door.
⁹God is in that waste basket.
¹⁰In addition to the assigned practice periods, repeat the idea for today at least once an hour, looking slowly about you as you say the words unhurriedly to yourself. ¹¹At least once or twice, you should experience a sense of restfulness as you do this.
(ACIM, W-29)

2025
I don’t know what to say about this lesson. It is simple to understand and simple to practice. And yet, it is profound and extraordinary. If I were suddenly told that I don’t actually live on a planet, but rather it is a spaceship. Or the life I thought I was living was actually a TV reality show. I wouldn’t be any more stunned than I am now looking at my computer and realizing that God is in it, just as much as He is in my fingers, playing over the keypad. No, this is not the first time I read this lesson or even the 10th time. I don’t know why I am so affected this time. Maybe my heart has opened to a more profound experience of it.
But I also feel frustrated. I recognize that this is the ego part of the mind that wants to understand everything. It wants to know why, and how, and what is next. It feels lost and a little afraid of not knowing. Most of all, it feels inadequate. OK, and maybe more afraid than I first realized. What if these questions are never answered, and I am left stranded in this bizarre place, forever separated from my God?
I’m glad I am not my ego. It is always filled with guilt and fear and knows little else. But now that I have shown the Holy Spirit the ego’s dark perception of this lesson, I feel relieved of the darkness. Actually, I am smiling and feel joyful. It was a nearly instant transformation. I still don’t understand, but am content to rest in the mystery. And wait patiently for the next revelation. Today, I will be happy to practice knowing that God is in everything I see.

2026
Before I began the lesson, I did as I have before and sent Love prayers to those who came to mind. I thought of the linemen again, working in dangerous and difficult conditions day after day, trying to restore power to the 69,000 customers here in Louisiana who are still without power. God bless you men. And sending Love prayers to the Monks still walking for peace in the snow and ice. I think of the people in the medical field who work diligently to keep these frail bodies healthy and repaired when they fail. And the precious men and women who work with me and follow my work sincerely, doing the best they can every day to live A Course in Miracles. It fills me with gratitude every morning now to send out the love and gratitude I feel.
Then, as I read today’s lesson, I am filled with a profound sense of awe and gratitude at the mystery of it. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. “Holy Spirit, decide for me what to think about this, how to use this lesson, and what to say about it.” When I use the ego mind, which is concrete, to understand the abstract, nothing makes sense, and I used to think that was all I had to work with. Now, though, I know I can call on the Holy Spirit, who is in my mind and speaks for God.
I look at my computer and the words appearing as I type, and I consider that God is in this computer, in the typed words, in the mind receiving them. Then I think of it this way: God is in my mind, and as I look with God, I see God, just as I look at the world with the ego belief in guilt, I see a guilty world. God is not in the computer as an object, but in the Mind through which it is seen—and therefore God is what I recognize everywhere. I feel like this is something I can understand even with my ego mind. It is at least a way I can use this lesson. “Thank you, Holy Spirit.” So this morning, when I began my day by asking the Holy Spirit to decide for me all things, I was asking to see God in everything.
There is a song I love by Peter Mayer called “Everything is Holy Now.” He sings about going to Church or reading the Bible to feel that holiness, but now he sees everything as holy. That’s how I feel right now as I contemplate this lesson. I pray to keep this sense of reverence as I look on the world through God, which is in my mind. I will do my part to ensure this vision by letting go of any beliefs that threaten to dim it.
I do not have to make the world holy; I only have to stop defending the belief that it isn’t.
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Lesson 28 2026

Above all else I want to see things differently.
1. Today we are really giving specific application to the idea for yesterday. ²In these practice periods, you will be making a series of definite commitments. ³The question of whether you will keep them in the future is not our concern here. ⁴If you are willing at least to make them now, you have started on the way to keeping them. ⁵And we are still at the beginning.
2. You may wonder why it is important to say, for example, “Above all else I want to see this table differently.” ²In itself it is not important at all. ³Yet what is by itself? ⁴And what does “in itself” mean? ⁵You see a lot of separate things about you, which really means you are not seeing at all. ⁶You either see or not. ⁷When you have seen one thing differently, you will see all things differently. ⁸The light you will see in any one of them is the same light you will see in them all.
3. 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. ²You are not defining it in past terms. ³You are asking what it is, rather than telling it what it is. ⁴You are not binding its meaning to your tiny experience of tables, nor are you limiting its purpose to your little personal thoughts.
4. You will not question what you have already defined. ²And the purpose of these exercises is to ask questions and receive the answers. ³In saying, “Above all else I want to see this table differently,” you are committing yourself to seeing. ⁴It is not an exclusive commitment. ⁵It is a commitment that applies to the table just as much as to anything else, neither more nor less.
5. You could, in fact, gain vision from just that table, if you would withdraw all your own ideas from it, and look upon it with a completely open mind. ²It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope. ³Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe.
6. 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. ²You will be making this same request of each subject that you use in the practice periods. ³And 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.
7. We will have six two-minute practice periods today, in which the idea for the day is stated first, and then applied to whatever you see about you. ²Not only should the subjects be chosen randomly, but each one should be accorded equal sincerity as today’s idea is applied to it, in an attempt to acknowledge the equal value of them all in their contribution to your seeing.
8. As usual, the applications should include the name of the subject your eyes happen to light on, and you should rest your eyes on it while saying:
²Above all else I want to see this _________ differently.
³Each application should be made quite slowly, and as thoughtfully as possible. ⁴There is no hurry.
(ACIM, W-28.1:1–8:4)

2025
The first thing my eyes alighted on was my calendar. I packed a lot of meaning into this book, so I thought it might be a hard one to start with, but I used it anyway. I am not the kind of person who has a lot of mystical experiences, and this ‘fact’ influences lessons like this. So, I wondered if anything would happen. As it turns out, it wasn’t the resistance I expected. It showed up as my mind wandering to other thoughts. It was only for two minutes, and it seemed like I could stay on task for that long. Evidently not. My ego really, really, does not want to do this, but I do.
I am looking forward to trying again later this morning. I am intrigued by the possibilities offered in this lesson. The idea that I could gain vision through this one exercise is exciting. I love this passage: ²It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope. ³Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe. Surely, I can keep my focus and open my mind long enough to achieve such a lofty goal. Well, we shall see. And as Jesus tells us, this is just the beginning. I will relax into this lesson and let go of my expectations of a specific outcome.
2026
What I noticed about last year’s contemplation is that I was trying to see it differently. I am directed to ask to see it differently, not to think of other ways to see it. That may seem like a subtle difference, but actually, it is at the crux of the lesson. We made separation by naming and defining. In so doing, we made it impossible to see what is actually here. I would like to let go of the definition I have given everything. I would like to allow the desk I am working at to show me something “beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope.”
This willingness to better understand the lesson has opened a door in my mind just a crack. I can walk through it, and to tell the truth, that scares me. Actually, it is the ego that is scared. It is standing guard at that door, warning me not to come any closer. It insists that if I go through the door, everything will be undone. But isn’t that what I want?
I remind myself that the ego is just a thought system put into place by me so that I could have this experience. If it is warning me not to approach these doors, it is doing so at my original command. But I also put the doors there so that I could walk away from the illusion when I was ready. Holy Spirit, decide for me what I am to do with this lesson, how I am to think about it, and use it.
Above all else I want to see differently.
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Lesson 27 2026

Above all else I want to see.
1. Today’s idea expresses something stronger than mere determination. ²It gives vision priority among your desires. ³You may feel hesitant about using the idea, on the grounds that you are not sure you really mean it. ⁴This does not matter. ⁵The purpose of today’s exercises is to bring the time when the idea will be wholly true a little nearer.
2. There may be a great temptation to believe that some sort of sacrifice is being asked of you when you say you want to see above all else. ²If you become uneasy about the lack of reservation involved, add:
³Vision has no cost to anyone.
⁴If fear of loss still persists, add further:
⁵It can only bless.
3. The idea for today needs many repetitions for maximum benefit. ²It should be used at least every half hour, and more if possible. ³You might try for every fifteen or twenty minutes. ⁴It is recommended that you set a definite time interval for using the idea when you wake or shortly afterwards, and attempt to adhere to it throughout the day. ⁵It will not be difficult to do this, even if you are engaged in conversation, or otherwise occupied at the time. ⁶You can still repeat one short sentence to yourself without disturbing anything.
4. The real question is, how often will you remember? ²How much do you want today’s idea to be true? ³Answer one of these questions, and you have answered the other. ⁴You will probably miss several applications, and perhaps quite a number. ⁵Do not be disturbed by this, but do try to keep on your schedule from then on. ⁶If only once during the day you feel that you were perfectly sincere while you were repeating today’s idea, you can be sure that you have saved yourself many years of effort.
(ACIM, W-27.1:1–4:6)

2025
I recall feeling disingenuous when I said those words. I didn’t really feel it. Above all else? I knew I should mean it, but if I didn’t and I said I did, was that lying to God? However, as always, Jesus knew we would have qualms and addressed them. Saying it frequently today will bring the day of certainty closer.
When we mean it, we will have saved ourselves many years of effort.
And don’t judge yourself and feel guilty if you don’t adhere to the schedule very well. Even though it is simple to do so, it is unlikely you will remember so often. I have done a couple of things to help me remember. I wrote it in bigger-than-usual letters on my calendar. Since I see my calendar all day long, that should help.
I am also writing it in the palm of my hand and on a sticky note I will attach to my refrigerator. There, that should do it! We shall see. I remember Ken Wapnick saying more important than remembering was seeing how much we didn’t want to remember. I don’t think that is true about me anymore, but I am still willing to look.
Above all else, I want to see. Oh, my dear God, I really do. Holy Spirit, please tap me on the shoulder and remind me if I get distracted by the day. I do sincerely want your help because I do sincerely want to see the truth.

2026
Just as I woke up this morning, my first thought was of God and the love I felt. And then the ego woke up. I so didn’t want to lose that first thought and feeling, so when the ego thoughts began to show up, I put my hand on my heart, slowed my breathing, and I sent my love prayers to the service industry. I had begun this practice with the garbage man, and yesterday it was the linemen who get out in the weather, no matter how bad or dangerous it is to repair the lines that keep power to our homes.
This morning, it was to the neighborhood store where workers came in when the rest of us were preparing for the coming storm and hunkering down in our warm homes. Then it was for Corrine, who is stranded without money or a place to go, and my friend Shelly, who has pneumonia, and my daughter and her family, who are sick. It was for those suffering in Minnesota, and for all whose lives feel uncertain or threatened right now. What mattered was not the form of any situation, but my willingness to keep my heart open and not withdraw love.
That was a lot of love going out, and so there was love coming back because that is the way it works. As we give, we receive. Mind you, this didn’t stop the ego from intruding on my love fest. It campaigned for fear and anger, and I just let it. I was wrapped in love, and I wanted that more than I wanted to join the ego’s agenda. I don’t have to fight the ego thoughts. I only need to let them go. Oh sure, the ego wanted to talk about it, but I didn’t. “I see you, outrage. Just keep going, not interested.”
So this morning, when I got my coffee and sat down to see what precious gem Jesus was offering me, I was delighted by what I found. Above all else, I want to see. I want to see what is really there. I want to see love without the dimming of doubt and fear. I want to look right through what my eyes show me to a world free of fear and guilt. I want to see with Christ Vision.
To achieve this clear Vision, I must move past the obstacles that obscure it. I was reminded of this passage from Chapter 12.
⁶You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them, for to lay aside means to judge against. ⁷If you will look, the Holy Spirit will judge, and He will judge truly. ⁸Yet He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to Him and He cannot take it from you. (ACIM, T-12.II.9:6-8)
I know how important this is. I have been asking the Holy Spirit to decide for me each time I notice a temptation to judge, to be afraid, to be angry. I don’t hide from my thoughts or feelings, and I don’t try to change them. Nor do I allow guilt to enter this holy endeavor, even when I seem to be temporarily stuck in my beliefs. I just turn to the Holy Spirit again. It is my practice.
One need not practice what they have already mastered, so why would I feel guilty if I missed a beat?
This is a good thing to remember while practicing today’s lesson. If you feel uncertain about it, resist the practice, forget to do the practice, or, as my friend said, feel like a liar saying it, that’s OK. Just do your best. It will pay off in the end because you really do want to see above all else. It’s the ego that has other plans.
What I practiced without certainty then, I choose more naturally now—and in that, I see how vision has been growing all along.

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Lesson 26

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
1. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. ²You see attack as a real threat. ³That is because you believe that you can really attack. ⁴And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. ⁵It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. ⁶You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them.
2. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. ²And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. ³Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. ⁴Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. ⁵They contradict each other.
3. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. ²If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. ³Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. ⁴And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. ⁵A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are.
4. Practice with today’s idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. ²Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. ³Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. ⁴And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so.
5. Six practice periods are required in applying today’s idea. ²A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. ³Do not reduce it further.
6. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. ²The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. ³Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. ⁴You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. ⁵Today’s idea should be applied as follows:
7. First, name the situation:
²I am concerned about _________.
³Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying:
⁴I am afraid _________ will happen.
8. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. ²It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. ³As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. ⁴Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can.
9. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself:
²That thought is an attack upon myself.
³Conclude each practice period by repeating today’s idea to yourself once more.
(ACIM, W-26.1:1–9:3)
2025
Maybe, like me, you saw this coming. I have seen that all I see and how I see it are the effects of my thoughts. Lesson 23 told us that my escape from the world is to give up my attack thoughts. This lesson is very specific as to why this is the case. If I perceive attack anywhere, I will believe in attack and will believe it can be directed at me. That I can be attacked must mean that I am vulnerable. A Son of God cannot be vulnerable, and if I perceive myself as vulnerable, then I am denying my awareness of myself as God’s Son. Attacking anyone for anything costs me my awareness of what I am. It keeps me returning to the illusion repeatedly. This is not what I want, so I watch my mind carefully for attack thoughts.
I discover them in the careless chatter of the mind. I will suddenly pull myself back from the chatter and realize I have been attacking someone. I was having this angry conversation with someone who was not there. What did I think I was accomplishing? I don’t know, but what I do know is that the only thing I accomplished was to further convince myself that I needed to be defended because I am vulnerable. Good grief.

It’s OK, though. I was hurting myself and denying the Oneness of the Sonship, but it was a mistake, not a sin. Practicing this lesson will keep me aware of these kinds of mistakes, and I will become more adept at catching them and forgiving them. Also, I was reminded that there is nowhere in the Course that says judge not except when it comes to politicians. Okay, I get it.  Those thoughts are hurting me, too.

We are just learning. Learning is why we are here. If we were already good at this stuff, we wouldn’t be here. And yet, I have noticed a tendency to feel guilty when I perceive myself as not doing a lesson well. That is why I love the following passage and read it nearly every day.
1. The happy learner cannot feel guilty about learning. ²This is so essential to learning that it should never be forgotten. ³The guiltless learner learns easily because his thoughts are free. ⁴Yet this entails the recognition that guilt is interference, not salvation, and serves no useful function at all. (ACIM, T-14.III.1:1-4)

2026
I want to add something here that my friend, Johanna wrote. When I first read this, it helped me see why vulnerability feels so convincing and how identity determines perception. I’m sharing it because it clarified something this lesson is pointing to.
Johanna said: I feel responsible for my presence here and have, mistakenly, concluded that the reason for that must be that I created myself. And since I obviously did not create all that I perceive in my environment, I stand separated and alone. I find myself looking at everything, rather than with everything. And that is why I do not really know what anything is for. Let’s look at the distinction between at and with.
Me: This next paragraph describes the mental posture that comes from believing we are separate.
Johanna: My imagined separated position induces a state of mind that is constantly trying to justify itself. This state of mind looks at the outside world and assesses it in terms of how useful a given person, thing, or situation is in light of my need to justify my existence. That explains the word “at” in: … looking at everything and judging it.
Me: Now she contrasts that with the perspective that comes from remembering our Source.
Johanna: But I do not have to justify my existence at all. God created me as part of Creation. I am part of the whole. That explains the word “with” in: … looking with everything and accepting it all as Life in extension.
From the perspective of the living Whole, everything serves the purpose of Its own well-being. Since I am (part of) the living Whole and were created by it, everything serves me. That is why the lesson says, “Everything is for your own best interests.”
My sense of identity, and thus my agenda, determines whether I judge everything or accept everything.
When I first read this, I wanted to share it because it was a helpful way to see what is going on here and why we feel so vulnerable. That last sentence is the reason I want to share this now. 
The reason I feel attacked is that I do not believe in my invulnerability, which is inherent in my very identity. And of course, if I feel attacked, I will defend myself and attack in return, and so that unfortunate cycle keeps me from accepting my true identity, which is my salvation.
As a separate self, I look at the world and see it as an attack on me. Or as part of the whole, I look with the world and see it unfolding within me. As I continue to study and practice the Course, I find myself moving toward the perspective of the Self, looking with rather than at. Not there yet, but beginning to feel it, and that is an exciting change.
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Lesson 25

I do not know what anything is for.
1. Purpose is meaning. ²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. ³You do not know what it is for. ⁴Therefore, it is meaningless to you. ⁵Everything is for your own best interests. ⁶That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. ⁷It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. ⁸It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary. ²At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose. ³Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels. ⁴For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity. ⁵What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for. ⁶And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not.
5. 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. ³The idea for today is a step in this direction.
6. Six practice periods, each of two-minutes duration, are required. ²Each practice period should begin with a slow repetition of the idea for today, followed by looking about you and letting your glance rest on whatever happens to catch your eye, near or far, “important” or “unimportant,” “human” or “nonhuman.” ³With your eyes resting on each subject you so select, say, for example:
⁴I do not know what this chair is for.
⁵I do not know what this pencil is for.
⁶I do not know what this hand is for.
⁷Say this quite slowly, without shifting your eyes from the subject until you have completed the statement about it. ⁸Then move on to the next subject, and apply today’s idea as before.
(ACIM, W-25.1:1–6:8)

2025
At first glance, this seems not to be true. As I look around the room, applying today’s lessons to various things, it certainly seems like it is obvious what these things are for. But when I take into consideration the fact that I identify with the ego, I see that I judge their purpose according to how it affects the personal self. Since the personal self is an illusion, and I am not, I see this is why I do not know what anything is for.
I had a perfect example of this as soon as I got out of bed. I went into my bathroom and turned on the light and the heater. I dislike the abrupt temperature change from the warm bed to the cold bathroom, so I appreciate this heater very much. This morning, it made an awful noise before the fan got going. I expressed my dismay forcefully. Let’s just say that I said “darn it!” Or something stronger. LOL.
I certainly felt like I knew what that heater was for. But who is it that thinks she needs a heater? It is the ego, the separate self, that is represented by a body. It is the ego, the separate self that has opinions and preferences that may be different than other body-selves.
As long as I continue to reference everything back to a separate self, I will continue to be lost in the world of thought projected outward. I don’t want that. I want to awaken from the imagined world, not reinforce it. So, I am ready for today’s simple lesson. I might have been lukewarm about doing it, but now I am actually excited about it. This lesson, practiced until it is fully accepted, is essential to awakening. That is what it is for.

2026
After reading what I wrote last year, I wasn’t sure I had anything to add. But I would add that if the bathroom heater stopped working, I would, of course, replace it. Understanding that I don’t know what something is for and so don’t know what it means doesn’t necessarily affect how I use it or if I use it. That’s not what this lesson is teaching. But noticing this misunderstanding of purpose frequently will help me shift my belief in a separate self. We all know who we are, but that knowledge is buried behind the false identity we took to have this experience. Remembering who we are and learning to identify as Self is our true purpose.
What makes this lesson uncomfortable is not that I lack information, but that I am asked to relinquish authority. I am not being invited to replace ego meanings with better ones, but to admit I have never known what anything was for. In that admission, meaning is no longer my responsibility—and that is a great relief.
Once purpose is no longer personal, the separate self has no function left to perform. And without function, it gently fades.
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24 ACIM Practitioner courses including 50-page study guide, CD's or MP3s, with facilitator. More….

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Hey, Holy Spirit, It's Me Again by Rev. Myron Jones. An indispensible guide for anyone on the path of ACIM with insights on the 1st 90 lessons. More…

True Forgiveness by Rev. Jennifer McSween. The Proven Path from Pain to Power and personal happiness in 5 Simple Steps. Learn more.

From the Christ Mind Book II scribed by Darrell Morley Price. A great supporting supplement to A Course in Miracles. We highly recommend it. More….

Forgiving Kevin Audio book by Rev. Larry Glenz. A moving and inspiring true story of a father/son relationship that withstood seven years of addiction, recovery, and relapse. More….

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