This year

• invest in truth, and let it work in peace. Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. Think what you have really seen and heard, and recognize it. Can you be alone with witnesses like these? ACiM  Text - Chapter Sixteen - The Forgiveness of Illusions - Section 2 - The Power of Holiness

• you will begin to learn, and make learning commensurate with teaching. You have chosen this by your own willingness to teach. Though you seemed to suffer for it, the joy of teaching will yet be yours. For the joy of teaching is in the learner, who offers it to the teacher in gratitude, and shares it with him. As you learn, your gratitude to your Self, Who teaches you what He is, will grow and help you honor Him. And you will learn His power and strength and purity, and love Him as His Father does. His Kingdom has no limits and no end, and there is nothing in Him that is not perfect and eternal. All this is you, and nothing outside of this is you. ACiM Text - Chapter Sixteen - The Forgiveness of Illusions - Section 3 - The Reward of Teaching

• is thus the time to make the easiest decision that ever confronted you, and also the only one. You will cross the bridge into reality simply because you will recognize that God is on the other side, and nothing at all is here. It is impossible not to make the natural decision as this is realized. ACiM Text - Chapter Sixteen - The Forgiveness of Illusions - Section 5 - The Choice for Completion

One of the important things to remember when you work with the Course (and this will always help keep you out of trouble with the Course so that you don't distort what it says)

is that

• this is not a course in form.
• This is not a course in effect.
• This is not a course in anything that has to do with the world of behavior.

This is a course in content, in cause. It is a course only in changing your mind. Even more to the point, and directly relevant to this workshop,  this is a course in helping you change your teacher or your adviser: moving from the ego as your guide, to the Holy Spirit or Jesus as your guide. What will hurt you is not what is outside you, not what you believe will hurt you. What will hurt you is your thought system that tells you that you can be on your own, that you should be on your own, that it is a fact you are on your own. That thought itself, which is the concept of decision, will reinforce your sense of separation and sin, which automatically will lead to your experience of guilt, and that in turn will always demand you be punished. There is no way out of this. That is why the concept of choice in this Course is so critically important. We really have to recognize what we are choosing and with whom we are choosing it, so that we can then make another choice. Rules for Decision (Text • Chapter 30 • Section I) Excerpts from the Workshop held at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles : Part IV Rule 1