LESSON SIXTY-FIVE

Lesson 65:

 

My only function is the one God gave me…

Let no thought reflect a goal that prevents me from accepting my only function…

On this clean slate let my true function be written for me…

My only function is the one God gave me~

I want no other and have no other…

Accepting only this function is my only goal. And any thought that is not this, is an attempt to author myself… It is actually reflective of the authority problem inherent in the idea of separation from God, and seemingly sourcing ourselves. Yet, the since the separation from God did not and could not take place in truth and life itself remain, what we are dealing with is illusion, made real by belief.  The ‘DNA’ or so-called genetic material of which must actually be ‘nothing’, posing as life; solidified by repetitive belief, is the physical universe called existence.

This is the thought from which I need salvation… Only through my total commitment to fulfilling my function can I return to ‘First Cause’. This lesson asks we look honestly at where this commitment lies… at how willing we are to be free of our futile, imaginary competition with God…
I remember the difficulty I had, for years, remembering designated practice times throughout the day which the lessons suggested.  But maybe even more interestingly, I found that attempting to control that remembering was ultimately an exercise in maintaining guilt, which is just another way to keep separation alive in my mind…
I found ‘i’ could not help myself. Even as the author of my “doing the Course right’, my ‘good’ intentions could not be counted on. “Trust not your good intentions. They are not enough. But trust implicitly, your willingness…Concentrate only on this, and be not disturbed that shadows surround it. This is why you came…the holy instant…is always the result of your small willingness combined with the unlimited power of God’s Will.” (T-18.IV. 1-4) Experience has taught me what this passage means. My little willingness uncovered a deep, undying commitment to fulfill the only function given me by God ~and forgive the rest… by forgiving the rest of my so-called life. An emergent commitment that I could never have comprehended … a commitment not from me, but for me… It has been enough to bring me to the bridge across which I find only Christ, in you and me…
The attractiveness of this state of peace only continues to increase and the experience extends … It is truly the simple desire of my heart~ uncovered and released…
My life, it seems, has become one in which the shadowy figures of illusion’s “DNA”, have given way to beaming truth that shines behind and beyond; the simple fact that ‘God is but Love ~and nothing else could ever be’…
Now, what was so hard about that? …Can it really be so hard to do what Christ has already accomplished? …It just doesn’t hold water does it? Can any little ‘importance’ be worth the price? It's all or nothing.
Heaven is the decision one must, and ultimately does, make … It is offered at every turn; in every encounter, every situation and circumstance.

The Course is such a direct and gentle route that unfolds this one decision within millions upon millions of apparent decisions in every moment, every day, as long as time is used.
There is peaceful stillness, which accompanies the decision to forgive and be happy … We are the One… Inevitably, it is a joy to see that every decision we make reflects who and what we think we are, what we value and what we want to be real for us. Each one is a chance to choose again our only function~ the one God gave us ~ the only one we want and the only one we have… I can hardly wait… To see what’s next…