A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-24.III The Forgiveness of Specialness

June 22, 2010

Our Will and God’s Will are one, they cannot be parted, and they cannot be separated.  Yet, we try with all our minds to make ourselves special in some way.  That idea of specialness is a sword, an illusion, but a sword when we believe it that separates our awareness from the awareness of the presence of God within us.  It is a mighty sword, but mighty only because we believe it.  In truth we cannot be separated from God and all we are created as is always intact.

Our true nature is One, not separation.  When we realize we are all One we see there can be no “specialness”.  Specialness makes one different from another and that is impossible if we are all One.  Yes, we bring great diversity to the Whole from our human life, but we are still always One, never separate, no matter how special we think we are.  Specialness is neither God’s Will or Our Will, for God’s Will and Our Will are One.  Whatever will is specialness must not be of God and therefore an illusion.

All God asks is to forgive our specialness.  It is simply to say, “I believed an error and am willing to let that belief go.  I am willing to see correctly.  I am willing to recognize that we all are One.”  This is the simplicity of forgiveness.  This is the simplicity of changing our minds and seeing our Oneness.  We allow ourselves to remember who we really are.  As we let go of our mistaken beliefs that we gave power by believing them, we release ourselves from their grip and our eyes are transformed before us, showing us the peace and love that has always been within us.

Do we really enjoy living the illusion of specialness?  Perhaps once in awhile we do, but most of the time we feel we are missing something.  We lack the awareness of the peace, joy, and love that is inherent in our God-being.  We lost touch with the grace of the Divine within us.  And so we looked to specialness to replace the Divine within us.  Specialness will never be Divine as it is the denial of Divineness.  Let go of the hell of specialness and see the Divinity within all.  We are One, unchangeable.  Let us live in that awareness and experience all we really are.  We are blessed.

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