What Are The ACIM Workbook Exercises For?

One of the major purposes of the Course workbook exercises is to train our minds to remember the peace and magnitude of our real spiritual identity through the undoing of the false images we have made of ourselves.

By Marianne Williamson 

What will happen as we grow into our spiritual magnitude?

In each of our lives, it will look different. Every moment holds infinite possibilities, and how much magnificence we allow to move into us and through us is determined by our willingness and receptivity.

To whatever extent the blocks are removed to the awareness of our divine nature, to that extent we are magnetized to the events and situations—and they are magnetized to us—that resonate with our grandeur.

If we’re vibrating at a low energy, we’ll attract low-energy situations (how many times have we stubbed a toe or banged a finger when we were angry?); if we’re vibrating at a high energy, we’ll attract miracles.

People will call out of nowhere; situations will just seem to improve; abundance of all kinds will just appear. And when they do, it is good to acknowledge them. We often build an altar to our disasters, giving them so much time and attention and energy.

But do we do the same for our blessings?

We’re living during a “celestial speed-up” in which everything is moving more quickly—including us!

Our issues aren’t coming through in slow gentle breezes anymore, but in huge torrential storms! And that’s not because we’re failing; it’s because we’re available, God knows it, and this is it.

This is a critical time in all our lives because it’s a critical time on earth.

Each of us has the opportunity now to grow into the fullness of our divine potential in order to take our place in God’s plan.

The plan exists in the Mind of God, and to the extent to which we surrender our thinking to Him, we take our part.

Our primary function is to stand in the light of who we are and become the people we are capable of being. From that, all good will follow. And we step into that light in any moment we choose.

When our hearts are closed to Love—when we’re judgmental, withholding, unforgiving—we are literally not being ourselves. We are, in those moments, choosing to be hostage to the ego rather than host to God.

Our function, our happiness, and our purpose all emanate from the same point of power; our capacity to embody love in any given instant.

And love is more than being nice.

It is the surrender of a separate sense of ego self, a claim to the totality of life as part of ourselves.

Knowing that we are part of the whole, we shift our perspective from a sense of individual identity to a sense of universal connection.

It becomes impossible to act only for yourself when you know that your self includes everyone.

If someone suffers on the other side of the world, he or she is no less a part of ourselves. And when a critical mass of humanity realizes this, then obstacles to world peace will fade.

Our goal is not just to create a world in which loveless things are outlawed; our vision is a world in which such things have become literally unthinkable.

That is the role of the miracle worker: