A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

June 11th 2014  Lesson 37

My holiness blesses the world. 

Today's idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here.  Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness.  Thus are you and the world blessed together.  No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision.  It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due.  And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.
  
Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.  Your holiness is the salvation of the world.  It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by reaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

• Intention:  Four longer three-to-five-minute practice periods are required for today, and in addition as many short exercises as you can. 
    
• Practice:  For the longer practice periods, Begin with the repetition of the idea for today, followed by a minute or so of looking about you as you apply the idea to whatever you see:      
    
  My holiness blesses this chair.
  My holiness blesses that window.
  My holiness blesses this body.
    
  

  Then close your eyes and apply the idea to any person who occurs to you, using their name and saying:  
    

  My holiness blesses you, [name].
    
  You may continue the practice period with your eyes closed; or open them and apply the idea to your outer world; or you may alternate between applying the idea to your inner and outer world, or any combination of these phases of application that you prefer.  The practice period should conclude with a repetition of the idea with your eyes closed, and another, following immediately, with your eyes open..
  
    
• Application:   The shorter practice periods consists of repeating the idea as often as you can.  It is particularly helpful to apply it silently to anyone you meet, using his name as you do so.  It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you.  Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness. 
     

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Insights/comments:

• Being a part of God means that we inherit all His characteristics, which is no trivial statement.  To be a part of God means, to say the least, that we are sinless, and therefore holy, but this does not apply only to us, for everything that is a part of God shares His holiness, and there is nothing real that is not a part of God.  Fantasies, illusions and dreams may seem real, but they are not part of God and therefore do not exist, in spite of what we believe about them.  The world we perceive is but a dream, and in dreams, only dreamers are real, perceiving their own illusions.  Yet, these illusions are part of our holy mind, which envelops them and can, if we choose, bless them and make them holy.  This is today's practice, to make all our perceptions and the thoughts behind them holy by blessing them.  This is our function in the world, to bless it with our holiness.

I and my Creator are One.