Messages & Miracles~ACIM~Lesson 25

I begin the day with a deep breath of gratitude. I inhale this in fully and clear away my thoughts.

Yesterday was a bit of a tough day for me. It was a busy one, cleaning up and clearing out. BINGO♡ I just realized why. For this, too, I am grateful. You see, once you know why, then you can, first be gentle with yourself, and second, you can choose to change the thoughts. Deep inward♡ thank you♡ My daily card chosen today, was Breakthrough. Today's lesson feels much like this. It's a breakthrough in understanding. The future is today♡Joyful & Alive♡Purpose is meaning.

A Course in Miracles♡Workbook Lesson 25~ 'I do not know what anything is for.'

Today's idea explains why nothing you see means anything. You do not know what it is for. Therefore, it is meaningless to you.

Everything is for your own best interests. That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means.

It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. 

It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning.

You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. As a result, you are bound to misuse it.
When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.

Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary. At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose. Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels.

For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity. What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for. And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not.

It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than "good" or "bad," is the only way to accomplish

this. The idea for today is a step in this direction.

Six practice periods, each of two-minutes duration, are required. Each 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." With your eyes resting on each subject you so select, say, for example:

I do not know what this chair is for.
I do not know what this pencil is for.
I do not know what this hand is for.

Say this quite slowly, without shifting your eyes from the subject until you have completed the statement about it. Then move on to the next subject, and apply today's idea as before.

Life is Beautiful. Life Loves Me. God Love Me. Life Blesses Me with Joy, Love, & Abundance
xxxLoriLynn