September 14, 2021
Lesson 257 –
Let me remember what my purpose is.
Our focus is very important to our state of mind and even our happiness. What are you focused on today? Is that focus creating peace in our mind? The Course asks us to be vigilant for Spirit’s guidance. If we allow ourselves to be open minded and receptive to Spirit’s guidance, we will be guided in a way that creates peace and joy in our lives. What is our real purpose while we believe we are separate; while we have forgotten or denied who we really are? In all things, our goal, our purpose is to return to the awareness of who we really are. It is the return to the awareness of our wholeness, our completeness, our freedom, and our holiness. As we return to this awareness, we remember that we are One with each other and our Creator – Oneness.
When we become disconnected with our true nature, we become confused and disoriented. We don’t know which way to turn or how to make choices. Perhaps we have remembered we can make another choice but don’t know how to make that choice a good one.
Perhaps we have even accepted contradicting goals which may seem appropriate but take us in opposite directions. The resulting feeling is of confusion and upset. We know that a feeling of confusion or upset is an indication that something is amiss in our perception and thinking. When we are thinking with correct perception, in alignment with Spirit, we experience peace and calmness. Our feelings are an indication of where our mind is and what thought system we are aligned with. The egoic thought system never allows us to be quite at peace. It must keep us just out of balance so we can’t quite feel the Peace of Oneness within us. What is your state of mind right now? Are you feeling peace, joy and love? Maybe something less?
If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions. No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well. Nor can they function without deep distress and great depression. Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what Source would have us do this day. W-pII.257.1:1-4
How do we begin to make this shift we want so much? Why are we not experiencing our true state of being? How do we right this imbalance? Though we have no need to do anything for we are already and always have been whole, we are given a tool to help us shift our awareness. We always have the option to forgive ourselves and others. Forgiveness is simply shifting our perception of ourselves and others. It is being willing to see ourselves and others as we really are, whole, complete, and holy. Our true Self is without limitation. We are eternal. We are whole and complete just as we already are and always have been. It is a matter of waning to awake from our dream of separation and step into the awareness of the Oneness of who we really are.
This lesson gives us this prayer to help us ask for the guidance to make this shift. Here is the peace we have been searching for that has always been within us. It is time to ask Spirit to guide us to our awakening.
Creator, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us. W-pII.257.2:1-3
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