To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection.
The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release.
All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1:1-3;II.5:1-6:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
It is not our responsibility to root out the hidden memories that foster our judgments and guilt. It is our responsibility to offer all our thoughts of judgment, guilt and fear to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him uncover for us the mistaken beliefs that deny us the vision of the loveliness of God’s Son. The Holy Spirit will show us that our mistaken beliefs are based on nothing and have no substance. As we receive His vision, we freely release mistaken beliefs and the fearful, guilty shadows of these beliefs fade into the nothingness from which they came.
Today we practice bringing our judgments and fears to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive the His gift of release.
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