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The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness

To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is, if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

You have a part to play in the Atonement, but the plan of the Atonement is beyond you. You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1:2-2:4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We cannot forgive when our thinking is directed by the false thought system of the ego. It is impossible for false ideas to recognize Truth or teach us what It is.

Fortunately our Creator has placed a Guide in our mind that recognizes the ego thought system as false and does not believe it. It is to this Guide we must turn day by day and moment by moment to help us overlook the false ideas of the ego and see past them to Truth.

Our inner Guide will show us that only Love is real. It will show us that behavior and words which do not reflect Love are simply a call for Love. As we follow this Guide, we will learn to respond to all situations with Love.

We are not alone. We have a Guide Whose function is to lead us out of our self-made dream of fear and guilt. As we are willing to accept this Guidance from within, we learn that we remain Love as Love created us. We see the innocence in our brother and recognize it as a reflection of our own innocence. This is Holy Spirit’s plan of forgiveness.

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Extending Love Brings Happiness with It

The attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love would never look on guilt at all. It is the nature of love to look upon only the truth, for there it sees itself, with which it would unite in holy union and completion. As love must look past fear, so must fear see love not. For love contains the end of guilt, as surely as fear depends on it. Love is attracted only to love.

Love’s messengers are gently sent, and return with messages of love and gentleness. The messengers of fear are harshly ordered to seek out guilt…

The Holy Spirit has given you love’s messengers to send instead of those you trained through fear. They are as eager to return to you what they hold dear as are the others. If you send [love’s messengers] forth, they will see only the blameless and the beautiful, the gentle and the kind. They will be as careful to let no little act of charity, no tiny expression of forgiveness, no little breath of love escape their notice. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.A.10:1-5;11:1-2;14:1-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we practice seeking and finding the truth of Love in our brothers. We let the Holy Spirit guide our vision to see past the ego’s images of fear and guilt. Because we are seeking only Love, we find only Love. As we practice this today, happiness comes with it. Our day is blessed because when we bless and are blessed. O what a happy day!

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Accepting God’s Will

It is God’s Will your mind be one with His. It is God’s Will that He has but one Son. It is God’s Will that His one Son is you. Think of these things in practicing today, and start the lesson that we learn today with this instruction in the way of truth:

Salvation is my only function here.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

Then turn to Him Who shares your function here, and let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as Love which has no opposite in you.

Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion, unity and peace. You cannot lose the gifts your Father gave. You do not want to be another self. You have no function that is not of God. Forgive yourself the one you think you made. Forgiveness and salvation are the same. Forgive what you have made and you are saved. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 99, W-pI.99.9:2-10:7. See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.)

We are forever complete in the unity of God’s Love and peace. We need only forgive or let go of our mistaken belief that we are separate from God to let our unity and Love return to our awareness.

Because we have taught ourselves to believe in the world of separation we made, we need help from outside our belief system to learn that we remain as Love created us. That Help is always with us and available whenever we are willing to accept It.

Frequent daily practice of taking time to step back in the moment with willingness to be inspired with the Holy Spirit’s way of seeing is how we return to awareness that we remain one with Love. This is the practice of forgiveness, of letting go of self-made barriers to the awareness of Love’s presence. This is how we accept God’s Will for us.

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We Let the Christ in Us Lead the Way

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. He is at peace because He sees no sin. Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? He is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Here we see that Christ is in us and works through us. As we identify with Him, we feel the peace that comes with seeing past the world of specialness to the oneness forgiveness brings. We take our brothers hand in Love, to guide him along the way to truth that we have found. We experience the joy of joining with our brother as we let the Christ in us lead the way Home to our Father.

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Undoing Our False Ideas

…the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas.

It is difficult for the untrained mind to believe that what it seems to picture is not there. This idea can be quite disturbing, and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms. Yet that does not preclude applying it. No more than that is required for these or any other exercises. Each small step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind that has been cleared of the debris that darkens it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 9, W-pI.9.1:4;2:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 9 Insights.)

We have filled our minds with the false ideas of separation from our Source. The more we practice stepping back from what we think we know and opening our mind to the Source of Inspiration That is always with us, the more our minds are healed.

As we continue opening to this Source, we learn that our true nature is Love and that we are still as God created us…

As we practice seeing only Love where we once saw lovelessness, we are filled with Love’s peace and joy…

We are open to experiencing the truth that we are eternal Love…

We are one with God’s Love and nothing else… False ideas of being separate from Love disappear in the Light of Truth.

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Walking with Our Brother to the Light

Think not the way to Heaven’s gate is difficult at all. Nothing you undertake with certain purpose and high resolve and happy confidence, holding your brother’s hand and keeping step to Heaven’s song, is difficult to do.

To you who still believe you live in time and know not it is gone, the Holy Spirit still guides you through the infinitely small and senseless maze you still perceive in time, though it has long since gone. You think you live in what is past. Each thing you look upon you saw but for an instant, long ago, before its unreality gave way to truth. Not one illusion still remains unanswered in your mind. Uncertainty was brought to certainty so long ago that it is hard indeed to hold it to your heart, as if it were before you still. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.V.2:4-6;4:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The dream of separation presents an illusion that we are separate from our brother, leaving us with a sense of loneliness and isolation. We need the help of the Holy Spirit to guide us past the images of separation and let them go. This is how we join with the Love that is our brother, taking his hand in unity and walking together to the Light of Heaven. The Guide to the Light has been given us. As we accept His help, we free ourselves to remember that we remain as Love created us. This is what time is for.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Lasting Happiness

We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.

Thus, it must be that your function is established by God through His Voice, or is made by the ego which you have made to replace Him.

You will listen to madness or hear the truth.… On one side stand all illusions. All truth stands on the other. Let us try today to realize that only the truth is true. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 66, W-pI.66.7:2-8:1;10:1,6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 66 Insights.)

Holy Spirit, all I want is Your guidance… All I want is to follow Your plan… I choose to see as You see… I choose to follow the gentle inspiration returning me to the awareness of Love’s Presence everywhere…

I know that Love sees only Love, and that seeing the Truth brings eternal happiness to my awareness… I choose to be happy today following Love’s lead. Amen.

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