We're All God's Teachers

"A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one.  His qualifications consist solely in this: somehow, somewhere, he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else's.  Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction is sure.  A light has entered the darkness.  It may be a single light, but that is enough.  He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not yet believe in Him.  He has become a bringer of salvation.  He has become a teacher of God." -- ACIM; Manual for Teachers 1.1:1-8

A Course in Miracles repeatedly reminds us that we are all teachers and messengers for God. In the Manual for Teachers it points out that whenever we see that minds are joined, we acknowledge this teaching function of forgiveness and atonement that is the miracle.  And so our bodies are given a different purpose.
 
"The central lesson is always this: that what you use the body for it will become to you.  Use it for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful.  Because it is sinful it is weak, and being weak it suffers and it dies.  Use it to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy.  Because it is holy it cannot die.  When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all.  The mind makes this decision, as it makes all decisions that are responsible for the body's condition.  Yet the teacher of God does not make this decision alone.  To do that would be to give the body another purpose from the one that keeps it holy.  God's Voice will tell him when he has fulfilled his role, just as It tells him what his function is.  He does not suffer either in going or remaining.  Sickness is now impossible to him." -- ACIM; Manual for Teachers 12.5:1-12

Focusing on forgiveness and Oneness rather than the next meal, the car that needs fixing, or the job we have to do... this is the shift we make as we accept our true function in the world.  In the Bible, Jeshua ben Joseph is quoted as saying, "Take no thought for what you will say, what you will eat, what you will wear... but seek first the Kingdom, and all these things will be given."  In other words, when we fulfill our natural function of Oneness with God and with each other by practicing the miracle of forgiveness, the world we're dreaming naturally reflects Wholeness as fulfillment in every moment, in the form of what we seem to be needing or doing.

The Course calls the perception of unfilled needs sickness and sin.  It's the out-picturing of our imagined separation from the Wholeness of God.  The good news is that as we accept this Oneness and forgive our perceptions of separateness however they show up, we find that we never lacked anything at all.

"Oneness and sickness cannot coexist.  God's teachers choose to look on dreams a while.  It is a conscious choice.  For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences.  The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are?  Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers.  They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die.  Yet they are not deceived by what they see.  They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful.  UNITY ALONE is not a thing of dreams.  And it is this God's teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming, and yet surely theirs." -- ACIM; Manual for Teachers 12.6:1-11

We're all God's teachers.  UNITY ALONE is all that is ever taught, and all that we ever need to learn.