A Meaningless World

A meaningless world:

lesson 14 in A Course in Miracles workbook states that God did not create a meaningless world — it’s been well over a decade since I have given the course any serious consideration, and yet this lesson seems to play through my mind more often than all the others, almost an inquiry of its own, a meditation, and often giving cause for me to ponder its implication. These lessons build on one another, a theme, and each one leads to a greater understanding of ourselves, God, and the world as they precede through the workbook. So it may not be helpful to consider one lesson in isolation, without understanding how we’ve been led to this particular statement, a declaration that God did not create a meaningless world.

each proceeding lesson builds on this theme, asking us to first consider the room around us, whatever objects catch our eye, briefly studying it before we state that it has no real meaning other than what we assign it. That’s the crux, being that any meaning assigned to the world is of our own doing, not of God, but that everything has been given its value through our own thinking. It’s a meaningless world, at least in and of itself, without any inherent significance until we’ve decided so.

that’s the beginning of the lessons, leading us now to number 14 and understanding why God did not create a meaningless world.