Miracles News

July-September, 2004

Eternal Purpose

by Rev. Erin Lawson, O.M.C.

In this world there seems to be endless choices we need to make each and every day. However, every choice in truth is a choice between what appears to be two options. They are illusion and Truth. The first option does not truly exist and the other option is eternally True. The unreal option is the belief that we exist in a world of form and perception and that we experience it through the presence of a body. This is no more than an illusion that we have been giving belief to in a mind split from the holy mind God created. The option of Truth is the knowing and experience of our eternal existence as one with God, the Source of all existence. Depending on which one we choose, we will believe it is the truth and experience the appropriate effects. The effect of the illusion is insanity; the effect of the Truth, being Truth, is infinite joy.

God created us one with Him in His Image and His Image has nothing to do with the experience of having a body. He created us to be one with Him eternally in His Kingdom. God’s Kingdom is His eternal Reality and there is no other Reality but His. The experience of existing in God’s Reality as God Himself experiences It is the Truth of existence. That is why Jesus, living in and experiencing the Reality of God, could say with authority; “I am the Truth.” He was demonstrating the truth of existence as God created it for us. The joy of Truth is that what God created remains as It is created eternally. Eternal changelessness is the nature of Truth. God’s Creation does not suddenly by some force of magic become something other than He willed. Believing God’s Will has changed, or that we have become something other than He Willed, gave rise to this world and all that it contains — all of its so-called “gifts” and all of its “horrors.”

In this world we are presented with the experience (belief) of having, or worse yet, being a body that is vital to our experience of existing. Everything we do in the world is done in service to the body. Everything we do in service to the body is done to avoid the effects of fear down the road. We have centuries of evidence that bodies are born in pain, live a life of struggle and toil just to end up decaying underground.

We all have our moments of achievement that we thought would bring the happiness and fulfillment we deserve. But without fail it is always less than we thought it would be. Then we try again believing this time it will be the fulfillment we want and it never is. In spite of this obvious madness, compared to our Eternal Oneness with God, which is Eternal Fulfillment, we devote ourselves to the body’s longevity as if it is the answer to Eternal Joy.

The belief in the body as reality presents us with endless choices in service to countless purposes, few of which, if any, relate to each other except for what we believe we can get from them. Each relationship we experience in this world seemingly serves a different purpose than all the other relationships we have. We assign a value to each one and if it lives up to our evaluation we believe it is “good,” if not its “bad.” Everything we experience in our life is a choice, good and bad alike. We choose them in service to some illusionary purpose that we believe will bring us fulfillment.

This is the experience of a fragmented mind and is the state of illusion. True and eternal fulfillment comes from knowing and being the fulfillment of God’s Will. God created us with a holy (whole) Mind, an extension of His Mind, in service to His Eternal Purpose. Accepting our oneness with God and living in a way that honors “only that” as our reality now, which honors our Father in Heaven, brings the fulfillment we are all seeking.

A Course In Miracles teaches us that our only responsibility is “Atonement.” Atonement is the acceptance of our existence as God created it. We atone ourselves to God’s Will as our existence and Its fulfillment as the purpose of our existence moment by moment. As we accept our oneness with God and live according to the Law of His Reality, we are accepting Christ into our existence as our existence and that is “salvation.” Look at the lily of the field. It does not struggle and toil for its existence. When we finally accept our self as God’s holy Children, our purpose in eternity, all we need to be His children will be added unto us. We will fulfill our God given purpose effortlessly even as we stand upon the face of the earth.

There may be those who struggle with the thought of how to accept our oneness with God and fulfill the purpose of being His holy Child in this world. The vast majority of God’s Children in the world do not realize they have the right or the God given ability to make such a choice. Even if they have an idea that they are supposed to Love as God Loves, they see the madness of the world around them and don’t see how it could be possible.

Everyone wants to be loved and hope they are as loving to others. Even those who act evil want to love and be loved in their heart of hearts. However, they have sunk so far into the illusion that in their minds they have given up on Love. Thank God, Love has not given up on them.

To know and experience our oneness with God we must be willing to offer His Love to every moment, to every experience and to everyone. If a thought of Osama Bin Laden or seemingly worse yet Adolf Hitler enters my mind am I willing to offer them the Love of God? If I experience thoughts of anger and hate and a lust for revenge about them, I am denying the purpose I was created for. Even though they seem to have nothing to do with my life in a personal sense, I experience them in my awareness of existing. That makes them a part of my creation, my existence, and I must be willing to love all of creation as God Loves me right now. Everyone of us has someone in our reality that we want to love but they keep presenting themselves to us in a way that seems to make it impossible to embrace them in love. So how is it possible to love all of creation as God loves us? It begins with the forgiveness of the Holy Spirit.

True forgiveness is to know with certainty that only God exists. To know only that which is of His Kingdom, Its Laws, is Truth. To see the Children of God and the world they live in as forgiven is to see them as God created them and knows them — perfectly holy. To see a child of God as anything else is to not see them at all and it is a choice to leave our purpose in eternity unfulfilled. One of the most joyous and liberating moments of awakening is the clear and undeniable realization that we are created for the eternal. That is the fulfillment of the curriculum of A Course In Miracles — to “remember God.” As we willingly accept that realization and devote ourselves to fulfilling it here and now, we are restored to the Vision of Christ. Because we choose to serve no purpose but the eternal in the moment, the vision of Christ reveals to us how we can fulfill God’s Purpose for all in each and every moment. No matter what the perception may be as the world sees it, the Vision of Christ shows us how to fulfill the truth in that moment, which is a blessing to all creation.

The more we allow ourselves to witness the forgiven world and honor the purpose of Truth in each moment, the clearer it becomes to us that we can only fulfill the purpose of God right now. There is no such thing as a future or a past in eternal Truth. All of creation is happening right now because now is the only element of time that touches upon eternity. Every purpose we have accepted in this world and pursued its fulfillment as if it has value to our existence is a choice for delay in time. It is a choice to leave our Eternal Purpose unfulfilled. The choice for delay in time is always tragic. It is tragic because it is the choice to delay our own salvation and salvation corrects and fulfills all of creation for us immediately. As we serve only the purpose of eternity through every seeming choice we make in the world, we will witness all of creation existing in service to our Eternal Purpose. The joy is we do not need to understand how that can be in order for it to work. We just have to be willing to know and accept; we all exist for God and His purpose in eternity. There is no other Truth. Join with the Holy Spirit in service to God’s eternal purpose and know the glory and joy of our oneness with God here and now.

God’s Blessings to all.

Rev. Erin Lawson is a Pathways of Light minister living in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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