Sometimes A Course in Miracles can seem like a great deal to ask of us. Then I read Chapter 21, Section 2, The Responsibility for Sight, and I’m reminded how little is actually asked.
“It is the same small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy; the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit for which He gives you everything; the very little on which salvation rests; the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection.”
That’s the entire requirement: one small willingness, offered to the Holy Spirit.
ACIM then tells us the one thing to do. It says this is the only thing we need to do for vision, happiness, release from pain, and the complete escape from sin.
Here’s the instruction for total transformation, resurrection, complete Joy, and wholeness in all our relationships:
“Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies: I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.”
Say it, and mean it.
The instruction isn’t vague. It isn’t ambiguous. It’s very, very clear.
Here’s my shorthand, and I say it to myself whenever there’s a challenge, particularly in a relationship: I am responsible for what I see, and everything is just as I wish it to be.
Then I ask myself, Am I willing to change my mind? I hold a new possibility and give it to the Higher Holy Spirit Self. The new possibility that I’ve found works best is simply the highest and best for all concerned.
Because we’re one with each other, the highest and best for me has to be the highest and best for you and for everyone else. There’s no other possibility.
Repeat the statement to yourself every day until you can say it with 100% sincerity. Then:
Salvation is yours.
Joy is yours.
Wholeness is yours.
Holy relationships are yours.
Relationships are an intense challenge. They’re our #1 help for choosing to awaken because they force us to work with our mind.
SATURDAY WORKSHOP: If someone you love has stopped speaking to you, join me this Saturday for my Deep Dive Workshop, When Someone You Love Won’t Speak to You, where we learn to peacefully hold the vision of the healed relationship. And if you’d like ongoing support for living this willingness and having lasting transformation, join me in Masterful Living, where we practice living ACIM step by step through the year.
The Holy Spirit asks for a small willingness, and gives us everything.
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SUNDAY: Family Forgiveness – another FREE Forgiveness Workshop – this one with a theme. The holidays are coming. Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away. Old resentments and family dynamics come up for healing during this last 2 months of the year. Holding onto grievances blocks our faith, trust, and capacity for Love, the only way to have more Love is to be more loving. We’ll do the healing work together.
LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: The Greatest Help for Your Awakening. In this episode of A Course in Miracles: Walking the Talk, Living the Love, I explore the trap so many of us live in: we ask and ask and ask, and still live with too little health, too little time, too little freedom. Something is standing in the way, and it isn’t what you think. After a workshop left me on fire, I opened The Song of Prayer, the ACIM addendum, and I’m sharing the hidden key in its first lines: “a greatest help that comes as a pair, one half eventually outgrown, the other never ending.” Imagine feeling supported, less triggered, and wide open to the good already being offered.
