Good Morning!
Today's lesson seems very important to me. In fact, it says that "Today's idea is the whole basis for vision." Notice that A Course in Miracles makes a distinction in many places throughout the text and workbook between "sight" and "vision". In para 2:3 it says, "Certainly God is not in a table, for example, as you see it." The emphasis should be placed on "as you see it" in my opinion. If we were to look upon the table with the Vision of God (not the body's eyes) then we can understand the importance of the table within the scope of the universe! But to look at the table with our body's eyes, coupled with our judgments and our preconceived notions of what a table is and what it is for, then of course, it seems preposterous to say that "God is in this table".
Just as the Course teaches us that "God creates" and Ego makes", let us keep this in mind that "Vision is of God" and "seeing is of form" (the body).
I like the sentence in 3:4: "Nothing is as it appears to you." This is shocking really and my ego rants and raves about this statement and tells me to throw this blue book into the bay and be done with it! As it says in the Text-13.VII.3:1 - "You do not really want the world you see, for it has disappointed you since time began."
I am going to take my chances and go along with the statement that "God is in everything I see." Remember that A Course in Miracles is a non-dualistic philosophy. As it says in the Intro to A Course in Miracles: "This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum".
Joan