Special Function
Definition of Special Function
“The unique part or role that we have each been assigned to play in God’s plan for the salvation of the world. Our special function is tailored to our particular strengths (in giving miracles) and involves certain people whom we are meant to help. An example of a special function would be Helen Schucman’s function of scribing A Course in Miracles.”
Such is the Holy Spirit’s kind perception of specialness; His use of what you made, to heal instead of harm: To each He gives a special function in salvation he alone can fill, a part for only him.Nor is the plan complete until he finds his special function and fulfills the part assigned to him, to make himself complete within a world where incompletion rules. Here, where the laws of God do not prevail in perfect form, can he yet do one perfect thing and make one perfect choice. And by this act of special faithfulness to one perceived as other than himself, he learns the gift was given to himself, and so they must be one.
The “special function” is the unique contribution to the salvation of the world that each person is called to make. The essence of each special function is the giving of forgiveness to others, to heal them and set them free to fulfill their own special function. So in that sense, each special function is the same. What makes each special function different is the particular individuals that one is meant to save, and also the particular strengths that one will employ in the process, along with how and where they can be best used (see W-154.2:2). This section focuses on us forgiving and saving our holy relationship partner. Earlier (see T-20.IV.6-7), the special function is framed as beginning with forgiving our holy relationship partner, at which point the two of us enter the “ark of peace” (T-20.IV.7:3), where we discover our joint special function in the world’s salvation: “Each holy relationship must enter here, to learn its special function in the Holy Spirit’s plan” (T-20.IV.7:4). - Footnote to CoA edition of ACIM
Jesus “was the first to complete his own part [his own special function] perfectly” (C-5.2:2).
“To each his special function is designed to be perceived as possible, and more and more desired as it proves to him that it is an alternative he really wants.” — A Course in Miracles, Text, Chapter 25, Section VIII, Paragraph 58
“The ‘special function’ is the unique contribution to the salvation of the world that each person is called to make. The essence of each special function is the giving of forgiveness to others, to heal them and set them free to fulfill their own special function. What makes each special function different is the particular individuals that one is meant to save, and also the particular strengths that one will employ in the process, along with how and where they can be best used.” — A Course in Miracles, Text, Chapter 25, Section VI
“The Holy Spirit needs your special function, that His may be fulfilled. Think not that you lack special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you. All that you made can serve salvation easily and well.” — A Course in Miracles, Text, Chapter 25, Section VII, Paragraph 7
“Such is the Holy Spirit’s kind perception of specialness—His use of what you made, to heal instead of harm. To each He gives a special function in salvation he alone can fill—a part for only him. Nor is the plan complete until he finds his special function and fulfills the part assigned to him to make himself complete within a world where incompletion rules.” — A Course in Miracles, Text, Chapter 25, Section VII, Paragraph 46
“In light, you see it as your special function in the plan to save the Son of God from all attack and let him understand that he is safe, as he has always been and will remain in time and in eternity alike.”
“Your special function opens wide the door beyond which is the memory of His love kept perfectly intact and undefiled.”
“Without your special function has this world no meaning for you.”
“The essence of each special function is the giving of forgiveness to others, to heal them and set them free to fulfill their own special function.”
“He has a special part in time, for so he chose, and choosing, made it for himself. His wish was not denied but changed in form, to let it serve his brother and himself, and thus become a means to save instead of lose.”
“The Holy Spirit needs your special function, that His may be fulfilled. Think not that you lack special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you.”
“Each holy relationship must enter here, to learn its special function in the Holy Spirit’s plan.”
“The essence of each special function is the giving of forgiveness to others, to heal them and set them free to fulfill their own special function.”
“To each his special function is designed to be perceived as possible and more and more desired as it proves to him that it is an alternative he wants.”
“Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice and that you share God’s Will.”
“Listen to God’s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do. We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us.”
“That One Voice appoints your function and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it.”
“Only by fulfilling the function given you by God will you be happy. That is because your function is to be happy by using the means by which happiness becomes inevitable.”
Your Sacred Function
Fulfilling your Divine Function
“In this depressing state the Holy Spirit reminds you gently that you are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creator with God.”
“In the end, whatever form it takes, your guilt arises from your failure to fulfill your function in God’s Mind with all of yours.”