My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 192, for July 10, 2024. I have a function God would have me fill.

I have a function God would have me fill.

1. It is your Father’s holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self.

* THIS IS HUGE! And THIS MEANS YOU ARE MEANT TO HAVE JOY ETERNALLY and TO SHARE THAT JOY, ETERNALLY!!!

²Yet what can such a function mean within a world of envy, hatred and attack?

* Read that again. Now, consider your circumstance, your community, the earth as we now see it. IT MUST CRUMBLE in our minds. It must crumble into dust that is blown away by the presence of the Holy Spirit Who bears witness to what is true.

* Do NOT blow yourself away with the dust or your neighbor and other loved ones even though they, too, got caught up in the ‘Matrix’ of the ego=god mentality.

* Be gentle with one another. Be gentle with yourself.

* This will pass and we will be so much the better for it!

2. Therefore, you have a function in the world in its own terms.

²For who can understand a language far beyond his simple grasp?

³Forgiveness represents your function here.

⁴It is not God’s creation, for it is the means by which untruth can be undone.

* This is why I do not believe in forgiveness but I do it because I believe in God.

⁵And who would pardon Heaven?

⁶Yet on earth, you need the means to let illusions go.

⁷Creation merely waits for your return to be acknowledged, not to be complete.

3. Creation cannot even be conceived of in the world.

* Remember that “world” only means those who do not allow God’s Existence or Assistance.

²It has no meaning here.

* Creation has no meaning in the ideology of the ego=god thinking. No matter how many workshops there are on “MANIFESTATION.”

³Forgiveness is the closest it can come to earth.

* THAT is cool! To think of forgiveness as CREATION! Wow! Yet, it IS the unveiling of the reality of the Father and His Son in ALL THAT IS or EVER Could BE!

⁴For being Heaven-born, it has no form at all.

* Father and Son HAVE no form or need of it but FORM MAY BE USED (by the Holy Spirit) to assist the Son as He undoes the resulting false (or fake) mental gymnastics he has accepted as truth.

⁵Yet God created One Who has the power to translate in form the wholly formless.

* This is the Holy Spirit.

⁶What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to waking that the light of day already shines in them, and eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain.

4. Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before.

²Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone.

³Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid, to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all.

5. The mind without the body cannot make mistakes.

²It cannot think that it will die, nor be the prey of merciless attack.

³Anger becomes impossible, and where is terror then?

⁴What fears could still assail those who have lost the source of all attack, the core of anguish and the seat of fear?

⁵Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home.

⁶Only forgiveness can restore the peace that God intended for His holy Son.

⁷Only forgiveness can persuade the Son to look again upon his holiness.

6. With anger gone, you will indeed perceive that, for Christ’s vision and the gift of sight, no sacrifice was asked, and only pain was lifted from a sick and tortured mind.

²Is this unwelcome?

³Is it to be feared?

⁴Or is it to be hoped for, met with thanks and joyously accepted?

⁵We are one, and therefore give up nothing.

⁶But we have indeed been given everything by God.

7. Yet do we need forgiveness to perceive that this is so.

²Without its kindly light we grope in darkness, using reason but to justify our rage and our attack.

³Our understanding is so limited that what we think we understand is but confusion born of error.

⁴We are lost in mists of shifting dreams and fearful thoughts, our eyes shut tight against the light; our minds engaged in worshipping what is not there.

8. Who can be born again in Christ but him who has forgiven everyone he sees or thinks of or imagines?

²Who could be set free while he imprisons anyone?

³A jailer is not free, for he is bound together with his prisoner.

⁴He must be sure that he does not escape, and so he spends his time in keeping watch on him.

⁵The bars that limit him become the world in which his jailer lives, along with him.

* THIS is what JUDGING does. It makes jailors out of us.

⁶And it is on his freedom that the way to liberty depends for both of them.

9. Therefore, hold no one prisoner.

²Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free.

³The way is simple.

⁴Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head.

* This “anger” is what comes when you want to see someone punished for wrong doing. It has NOTHING to do with the frustration that comes from not knowing how to communicate God’s Love to those who are trapped in the ideology of ego. (That is what can bring up words of exclamation on my part. Lol, and yeah, I do think it is funny. And, sure, I would rather not swear but sometimes expression (or existence) needs a voice.

⁵And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free.

⁶Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior from the prison house of death.

* This has been the ‘fallback’ of the elite who think they know the Course meaning and has been used as a weapon to keep the truth at bay for 50 years. It excuses so much because, “Surely someone who shows frustration must be WRONG Minded.”

⁷And so you owe him thanks instead of pain.

* Agreed. Yet, from within the understanding of the Atonement, you will no longer see the response of anger that seeks punishment as real at all.

10. Be merciful today.

* Accept the Atonement and be merciful to the Whole of Christ in one fell swoop.

²The Son of God deserves your mercy.

³It is he who asks that you accept the way to freedom now.

⁴Deny him not.

⁵His Father’s Love for him belongs to you.

⁶Your function here on earth is only to forgive him, that you may accept him back as your Identity.

* Accept All That Is as a PART OF YOURSELF in the Sonship of Christ. NOT NOT NOT NOT “your Identity.”

* This is confusing the Reality of your personal Existence and that is NOT CORRECT.

⁷He is as God created him.

* YES.

⁸And you are what he is.

* NO! You are AS HE IS, a part of the Sonship that Is Christ Who Is God’s Only Begotten Son.

* It seems reasonable enough to me that this would be the confusion of Helen, Bill, and Ken because of them being outside of the Atonement at the time this was given to them.

* They have each done us a GREAT SERVICE and Jesus chose them because they were willing to allow A Course in Miracles to be brought into the Consciousness of Christ at the LEVEL that the MISTAKE EXISTS, where ego seemed to replace God and the Son was denied His Heritage.

⁹Forgive him now his sins, and you will see that you are one with him.

(ACIM, W-192.1:1–10:9)

Till next time, God bless, debi.