My Contemplation of Lesson 37
My holiness blesses the world.
Here are my favorite sentences. They explain what we do when we bless the world and why we do it.
This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here.
²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together.
The world seems to be a bleak place when we look at it from the perspective of our split mind. The ego can only show us what it knows, anger, hatred, fear, and guilt. If I look at the world in this way, I curse it and myself with these dark thoughts. Looked at from the perspective of my holiness, my right mind, I bless the world with the love that I am. I see love because I am looking with my holiness. Nothing needs to change in the world for this shift to occur. The world, as I see it, is a reflection of my mind. I see what I want to see.
This morning, I kept thinking about how I don’t know what anything means. I wondered why that lesson kept going through my mind. Now I see how it fits with the lesson for today. This morning, I read something in the news that was disturbing, and I remembered that I “don’t know what anything is for.” With that shift from the split mind to the right mind, I looked again at the news and wondered how this story of the world would play out. I just wondered. I didn’t go into fear because I didn’t know what it was for, so why would I try to judge it? In this way, I was blessing it with my holiness.
3. Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.
Someone said something that would cause suffering for others. My immediate thought was one of condemnation. But our lesson today tells us that my “holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him.” I want to bless him rather than condemn him because, in so doing, I am blessing my brother and myself, and I am saving the world. Why would I ever consider doing anything else?
My first prayer when I woke up was to ask the Holy Spirit to place my faith where it belongs. I am done giving my faith to illusions. That prayer has been a constant for me since I read this in Chapter 14: ⁶Your faith in nothing is deceiving you. ⁷Offer your faith to Me, and I will place it gently in the holy place where it belongs. (ACIM, T-14.II.3:6-7) I find this especially helpful when I read the news. The news is about an illusion. It is about nothing. I will not place my faith in nothing today.
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