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A Course In Miracles Lesson 25

I do not know what anything is for.

🌿 Last lesson, I admitted that I don’t always perceive my own best interests. I don’t reliably know what is best for me. This lesson extends that insight a step further: I often don’t know what anything is truly for, because my mind assigns purpose too quickly and too narrowly.

I see a phone and think it is for talking across distance. What I miss is its deeper purpose—to connect me to another person, to remind me that separation isn’t as solid as it appears. I mistake function for meaning.

This shows up everywhere. I assign purpose to situations, objects, and events based on my immediate needs or fears. I decide what something is “for” and then react accordingly. In re-entry, this habit runs deep. A denied application becomes a setback. A difficult interaction becomes a threat. I label experiences as obstacles without pausing to ask what else they might serve.

ACIM doesn’t say purpose doesn’t exist. It says my ego is a poor interpreter of it. The goals I assign feel urgent and personal, but they aren’t truly mine. I chase outcomes I believe will protect me, only to feel restless or disappointed when they don’t deliver the peace I expected.

Purpose is meaning. And meaning isn’t something I manufacture—it’s something I recognize when I stop insisting I already know.

This lesson invites me to notice how often I impose goals on the world and mistake them for truth. Releasing those goals isn’t giving up. It’s creating space. Space for a deeper, shared purpose to emerge—one that isn’t limited to my survival strategies or conditioned expectations.

The value of anything lies not in the object or event itself, but in my openness to what it can reveal. I may know how to use something, but I don’t yet know why it appears in my life, or what it might be teaching me.

Today, I am willing to notice the meanings I’ve been assigning and hold them more lightly.

I don’t need certainty.

I only need willingness.

I am MovingStill

🌱 MovingStill Challenge:

Where in your life might you be assigning purpose too quickly, and what could shift if you paused instead?

#iammovingstill #reentry #spirituality #wedorecover #deepthoughts

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