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Lesson 37 2026

My holiness blesses the world.
1. 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. ⁴No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. ⁵It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. ⁶And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.
I want to live this life in such a way that I fulfill my function. And I want to be happy and peaceful. The peace and happiness that I desire is fulfilled when I accept my function. I am devoted to this function now. I thought I was before, but I see now that I wanted it while still wanting other things. For part of my life I wanted more things, more fulfilling relationships. I believed that if I could control my environment, I could be happy.
Then, as I’ve studied and practiced the Course, I began to see the error in this. My environment does not need to influence my happiness unless that is my belief. With that understanding, I began to focus instead on my inner environment. I was learning to be vigilant for my thoughts and to ask for correction. I slowly got better at this, but I still wanted other things too, so I was not fully dedicated to this one function.
I wanted people to like me and to admire me. I wanted my children to notice what an improved version of myself I had developed. There were a lot of body issues that needed to be sorted before I was truly at peace and happy. Much of this began to shift for me in a way that pleased me, but that wasn’t it either. I was happier and more peaceful than before, but it wasn’t constant, and it seemed that the vagaries of life kept getting in the way of my happiness.
I would notice something in the Course that Jesus offered to help us achieve happiness—a practice or an idea that I had not tried yet—and I would be off and running, chasing that elusive happiness and even more elusive peace. Then, as I was studying Chapter 14, I read this one sentence that changed everything.
⁵Your only calling here is to devote yourself, with active willingness, to the denial of guilt in all its forms. (ACIM, T-14.V.3:5)
It was not the first time I had read this, of course, but this time I was gob smacked by it. I was finally ready for it, I suppose. Guilt is the barrier to our awakening, and to awaken we must dismantle that barrier. I am completely devoted to this task now. I am actively doing so, and in these holiness lessons, I am helped by being reminded of two things: God is in my mind, and I am very holy. My holiness envelops everything I see and blesses it. This is done by the power of God in me. I need only accept my calling.
Today’s lesson is helping me hone in on my function. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. This clarifies what I am to do and how. More importantly, it reinforces my only calling. None of this is new to me, but it feels as though puzzle pieces are quietly falling into place, giving me a clear picture of what I am to do to find the peace and happiness I have sought for so long.
Guilt is what I am to undo, and I must undo it everywhere and in every situation. Without the belief in guilt, I will happily bless all the world and with it myself. Everyone gains, and no one loses. So I asked Jesus where to start, and he pointed to Minneapolis. OK, Jesus, throw me into the deep end. I have not been able to look at that situation without judgment, no matter how I squinted my eyes. People are suffering. People are dying. There is no reason that had to happen. No matter how I looked at it or tried to spiritualize my reaction, I still saw guilt. And just saying that no one was guilty wasn’t changing that. If I simply dismiss guilt, how is it that no one loses? Nothing changes, and more suffering occurs.
What I was missing was that denying guilt is not the same as denying harm, or denying the need for change. Guilt is the belief that someone must be condemned in order for healing to occur. Holiness teaches otherwise. It restores wholeness by asking nothing of anyone—not suffering, not punishment, not sacrifice. When guilt is withdrawn, clarity becomes possible, and action can be taken without hatred guiding it.
2. There is no other way in which the idea of sacrifice can be removed from the world’s thinking. ²Any other way of seeing will inevitably demand payment of someone or something. ³As a result, the perceiver will lose. ⁴Nor will he have any idea why he is losing. ⁵Yet his wholeness is restored to his awareness through your vision. ⁶Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. ⁷Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.
This morning, I began to see this differently. I am not being asked to condone actions taken. In the world, there are things that need to change for the benefit of all. We must remove from society those who hurt others for the good of all. But does that require that we make them guilty? I began to understand that there is a way to help all.
As I accepted my part in the Atonement this morning, I felt the need to judge melt away. I felt it in my body. Tension I had not realized I was holding relaxed in my neck and shoulders. A lump in my throat melted away, and some tears gathered behind my eyes. I realized that I don’t want to hate anyone. I simply didn’t see a way to love those who were suffering without blaming those I perceived as causing the suffering.
Here is where my willingness became active. I can say no, it is not okay to break the laws made to protect us all, without guilt entering into it at all. Just as when my cat scratches my leather furniture, I stop her, but I don’t hate her or think she is guilty for being a cat doing what cats do. I can say to someone who breaks the law that something must be done, without believing they are guilty for being human. Humans, in their confusion and fear, do terrible things to each other. That’s why we have the Course in the first place—so we can wake up from the belief that we are human and remember that we are Spirit, an extension of God. That we are good.
How can I help myself and all others? By choosing to see past the story unfolding before us, and by refusing to arrest my sight at bodies and what bodies do in their desire to defend through attack. Seen through the holiness in my mind, they are blessed. My holiness will bless them and help them remember their holiness. In doing so, I reinforce the belief in my holiness and our shared oneness, as I acknowledge the same holiness in us all.
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. (ACIM, W-37)
This is my function, and it asks nothing but my willingness. As guilt is undone in my mind, holiness does what it always does—quietly blessing everything it sees.
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Lesson 38
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
2025
I was pretty disappointed when I did this lesson the first time. I had a lot of plans for my holiness. It didn’t win the lottery for me or change the circumstances of my life to any degree. What it did for me was to plant a seed that began to grow.
I now understand what it means to bless the world with my holiness. As I have learned to shift my awareness from the split mind to the holy mind, I have blessed the world. I have blessed my story and my self, as well as blessed many others. This has shown up in many ways. But it is still erratic because I have not yet learned to stay in my right mind all the time.
Just last night, I read something on Facebook that broke my heart. When I am in my right mind, I am not affected by the world in that way. But, as Lloyd Lapp said, “To fight any part of the dream makes you part of the dream.” And that is what happened. I knew what was going on, and I reminded myself that “my holiness blesses the world.” But it seemed like a sham to me.
This morning, I said hello to Brother Jesus, and, with a smile, assured him I was back on my horse again. It was like yesterday never happened. This is because that first time doing these lessons, that seed was planted, and it has continued to grow and blossom. It hasn’t reached its full potential yet, but it will.
Jesus is showing us today what that full potential looks like. Does it inspire you, motivate you, or scare you? In the beginning, I completely misunderstood who he was talking to. I was still mostly identified with my image, Myron. She is not real, and she is not me. Jesus is talking to us, to who we truly are, the Sons of God. He is reminding us of our true nature and perhaps enticing us to step into that truth. And we can, you know. We will. So let us spend the day in practice, reminding ourselves frequently that there is nothing our holiness cannot do.
5. This is God’s Final Judgment: “You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. ²Therefore awaken and return to Me. ³I am your Father and you are My Son.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.5:1-3)
2026
1. Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. ²It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind. ³Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a Son of God, at one with the Mind of his Creator.
2. Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest. ²Through your holiness the power of God is made available. ³And there is nothing the power of God cannot do. ⁴Your holiness, then, can remove all pain, can end all sorrow, and can solve all problems. ⁵It can do so in connection with yourself and with anyone else. ⁶It is equal in its power to help anyone because it is equal in its power to save anyone.
3. If you are holy, so is everything God created. ²You are holy because all things He created are holy. ³And all things He created are holy because you are. ⁴In today’s exercises, we will apply the power of your holiness to all problems, difficulties or suffering in any form that you happen to think of, in yourself or in someone else. ⁵We will make no distinctions because there are no distinctions. (ACIM, W-38)
Yesterday, in a writing I did from the Circle of Atonement in the Text, I talked about my son, who has been sick. Here is what I wrote about him.
Shortly before I began this particular writing, I got a text from my son. He has a particularly bad case of flu but cannot just sit things out while he heals. He had to drive quite a way to get his medicine. He can’t talk because of his sickness, and his head feels like it is going to explode. It hurts so much. On top of all that, he can’t work and his bills are all way behind, and he doesn’t have money for food. Then he had a blowout, and his new jack wasn’t working. Lord, have mercy!
I felt really bad for him and wanted to help, but there wasn’t much I could do in this situation. My focus yesterday was seeing the situation differently, staying in the Circle of Atonement with Jesus, seeing only innocence. And that was helpful to us both, but today, I see another way that I can help him and anyone, and how I can help any situation. I can remember that there is nothing my holiness cannot do. It can solve all problems in connection with anyone.
To use this power, I first establish that it is not the character Myron, the ego self, that is doing it. It is my Self, and it is my willingness to accept that in truth, I am God’s Son. As His Son I have the right to make God’s power manifest in the world.
And to be honest, I must overcome the ego tendency to see myself as Myron, frail and fallible. I look at the story of Myron, and she exhibits proof that she is both of those and has done so nearly all of her life.
But I am also far more open to the truth now than I have ever been. The lessons are designed to bring me to this truth, and this year they have penetrated further into my mind than has happened in the past. My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. It is with this authority that I (my holiness) reverse the laws of the world that say I cannot change the course of an illness; that I cannot change someone else. There is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
So this morning, I have dared to step out of my role as Myron, as Toby’s mom, as a body in a world of pain and suffering. I accept my truth fully if only for this purpose, and my holiness blesses both of us, undoing the belief in sickness without exception. It establishes the truth in the place of the ego’s experience of suffering. It establishes the truth of our access to this power because what I can do, we all can do.
The ego is pretty actively resisting this, insisting I am being arrogant and ridiculous. But who am I going to believe, the ego or Jesus? I choose Jesus.
Afterward, will I slip back into the confines of the image of Myron? Well, this movement into my holiness is a new thing, or at least a rare thing, so probably I will revert to habit. But now I know that this is possible, that I can dare to accept my holiness. I can dare to say this aloud to others with only a twinge of fear that my holiness overrides. So who knows what will happen next?
⁵In the situation involving my son, in which I see myself, there is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
⁶In the situation involving my son, in which he sees himself, there is nothing my holiness cannot do.
³There is nothing my holiness cannot do because the power of God lies in it.
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