Welcome to Active Meditation.
The Course in Miracles,
Lesson 38 There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
This is a Course in Miracles.
It is a required Course.
Only the time you take it is voluntary.
Some of the ideas the exercises present you will find hard to believe and others may seem to be quite startling.
This does not matter.
You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do.
You are not asked to judge them at all.
It is their use that will give them meaning to you and will show you that they are true.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world.
It is beyond every restriction of time,
Space,
Distance and limits of any kind.
Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a child of God and one with the mind of our Creator.
Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest.
Through your holiness the power of God is made available.
And there is nothing the power of God cannot do.
Your holiness then can remove all pain,
Can end all sorrow and can solve all problems.
It can do so in connection with yourself and with anyone else.
It is equal in its power to help anyone because it is equal in its power to save anyone.
If you are holy,
So is everything God created.
You are holy because all things God created are holy.
And all things God created are holy because you are.
In today's exercises we will apply the power of your holiness to all problems,
Difficulties or suffering in any form that you happen to think of in yourself or in someone else.
We will make no distinctions because there are no distinctions.
In the four longer practice periods,
Each preferably to last a full five minutes,
Close your eyes,
Repeat the idea for today,
And then search your mind for any sense of loss or unhappiness of any kind as you see it.
Try to make as little distinction as possible between a situation that is difficult for you and one that is difficult for someone else.
Identify the situation specifically and also the name of the person concerned.
Use this form in applying the idea for today.
In the situation involving,
Name the situation in which I see myself.
There is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
Or in the situation involving,
Name the situation in which,
Name the person who sees themselves.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
Let's practice.
Identify a difficult circumstance in which you find yourself.
I'll be silent.
Now that you have found the issue,
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
In the situation involving,
Name the situation in which I see myself.
There is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
Say this now.
Now identify a sense of loss or unhappiness of any kind that is difficult for someone else.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
In the situation involving,
Name the situation in which,
Name the person who sees themselves.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
I'll be quiet.
Now identify a sense of loss or unhappiness of any kind that is difficult for someone else.
I'll be quiet.
From time to time,
You may want to vary this procedure and have some relevant thoughts of your own.
You might like,
For example,
To include thoughts such as,
There is nothing my holiness cannot do because the power of God lies in it.
Introduce whatever variations appeal to you,
But keep the exercises focused on the theme,
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
The purpose of today's exercises is to begin to instill in you a sense that you have dominion over all things because of what you are.
In the frequent,
Shorter applications,
Apply the idea in its original form,
Unless a specific problem concerning you or someone else arises or comes to mind.
In that event,
Use the more specific form in applying the idea to it.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
Let's practice again.
Identify a difficult situation in which you find yourself,
And when you have,
Say,
In the situation involving,
In the situation in which I see myself,
There is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
Now be quiet.
Identify a sense of loss or unhappiness of any kind that is difficult for someone else.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
In the situation involving,
Name the situation in which,
Name the person who sees themself,
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
I'll be silent while you do this.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do because the power of God lies in it.
The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world.
Remember only this.
You need not believe the ideas.
You need not accept them.
And you need not even welcome them.
Some of them you may actively resist.
None of this will matter or decrease their efficacy.
But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains.
And whatever your reactions to the ideas may be,
Use them.
Nothing more than that is required.
Let's return our awareness to our physical body.
Start this process by taking a few deep breaths.
And as we return to time and space,
We acknowledge,
I am aware.
I am.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
