[acimlessons_list] Review VI, Lesson 212 - July 31

[Sue Roth]

Review VI, Lesson 212 - July 31

Central theme:

"I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."

Review of:

(192) "I have a function God would have me fill."

PRACTICE INSTRUCTIONS

See REview VI Practice Instructions.

COMMENTARY

What is the function God has for me? Lesson 192, which this lesson reviews,
told me that "forgiveness represents your function here" (W-pI.192:2:3). I
need to be reminded of that. My function is not some particular career or
occupation. The content is what matters; the form will shape itself to that
content, based on the circumstances of my life. Forgiveness is the content.
If I am asking myself what my occupation should be, or what direction my
life should take, let me ask myself this question: How does forgiveness best
take form in my life right now? Or better yet, let me ask the Holy Spirit
that question.

An "occupation" is what occupies most of my life. How, in form, can I occupy
most of my life with forgiveness? How can I best serve to look upon
illusions and see them disappear? How can I best serve to assist myself, and
others, to let go of all guilt? How can I best reflect love in this world?

I work as a writer (you may do something quite different--fill in as you
please). But that occupation is not my function; it is only one means of
<expressing> my function, which is forgiveness--the same function God has
given to all of us. The form may change or disappear; my function remains
unchanged. A few years ago I was working as a computer consultant because,
at that time, I felt that was the best means I had of fulfilling my
function. Then, the form changed. But not the content.

Let me not seek any function in terms of form. Let me always seek the
content. It is the content of forgiveness, of reflecting love in this world
and releasing from guilt, that will set me free from illusions. No form can
do that, since every form is itself part of the illusion. So all that I
seek, and all that I lay claim to as mine, is the function God gave me (the
content) and not any occupation, or job, or situation.

I am not a body (a form). I am free. I am formless, and I am therefore not
tied to form of any kind.