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God’s Strength and Love Help Us Forgive

God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.

Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. Fear condemns and love forgives. Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. It is the means by which illusions disappear.

…spend a minute or two in searching your mind for those whom you have not forgiven. It does not matter “how much” you have not forgiven them. You have forgiven them entirely or not at all.

At any time during the day when you become aware of any kind of negative reaction to anyone, present or not… tell him silently:

God is the Love in which I forgive you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 46, W-pI.46.1-2;3:3-5;7:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 46 Insights.)

A negative reaction in any situation is a sure sign that we need to forgive. The strength and Love we need to forgive is already in us because God is in us. We are eternally in the Mind of God, for we cannot leave our Source.

The presence of fear or lack of peace comes from the belief that we have left our Source. But we, the Son of God, are His Creation, His extensions of Love, and what God Creates is eternal. Only a false belief, an illusion, makes us unaware of the presence of God in us.

Today we choose to monitor our thoughts. If we notice disturbance to our peace, we will call upon the strength and Love of God in us to help us forgive the appearance of fear. His strength supports us in seeing through illusions to the changeless Love that is our Reality. His Help will remind us that God is the Love in which we forgive and will set us free to be the Love He created us to be.

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The Fast Track to Our Home in Love

…try to understand and accept what the idea for the day [my only function is the one God gave me] really means. Today’s idea offers you escape from all your perceived difficulties. It places the key to the door of peace, which you have closed upon yourself, in your own hands. It gives you the answer to all the searching you have done since time began.

Try …to arrange your day so that you have set apart the time for God, as well as for all the trivial purposes and goals you will pursue. This is part of the long-range disciplinary training your mind needs, so that the Holy Spirit can use it consistently for the purpose He shares with you.

For the longer practice period, review the idea for the day. Then close your eyes, repeat the idea to yourself once again, and watch your mind carefully to catch whatever thoughts cross it. At first, make no attempt to concentrate only on thoughts related to the idea for the day. Rather, try to uncover each thought that arises to interfere with it. Note each one as it comes to you, with as little involvement or concern as possible, dismissing each one by telling yourself:

This thought reflects a goal that is preventing me from accepting my only function.

After a while, interfering thoughts will become harder to find. Try, however, to continue a minute or so longer, attempting to catch a few of the idle thoughts that escaped your attention before, but do not strain or make undue effort in doing this. Then tell yourself:

On this clean slate let my true function be written for me.

You need not use these exact words, but try to get the sense of being willing to have your illusions of purpose be replaced by truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 65, W-pI.65.3;4:3-6:6. See also ACIM Lesson 65 Insights.)

This exercise from ACIM is like daily house cleaning. By doing a little house cleaning daily, your house can be left clean without making it a big project that gets put off. By having a daily practice of setting time apart to be with God and cleaning away our habitual interferences, we open the door to Holy Spirit’s cleaning of our minds. We are encouraged to go lightly with this process so that it isn’t made into a burden that we put off.

Establishing this practice will bring great reward. A mind that is open to Holy Spirit’s lessons in awakening is on the fast track on the journey Home to Love. It leads us to deep peace and lasting happiness.

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Learning to Recognize Our Blocks to Love

Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. It is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever?

Those with the strength of God in their awareness could never think of battle. What could they gain but loss of their perfection? For everything fought for on the battleground is of the body; something it seems to offer or to own. No one who knows that he has everything could seek for limitation, nor could he value the body’s offerings. The senselessness of conquest is quite apparent from the quiet sphere above the battleground. What can conflict with everything? And what is there that offers less, yet could be wanted more? Who with the Love of God upholding him could find the choice of miracles or murder [separation, specialness] hard to make? (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.8-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The limitless strength of God is already ours. We are unaware of it because we have chosen to accept the limitation of a body identity. Being unaware of God’s strength in us does not mean it is gone. We need to choose to rise above the dream of bodies and personalities in conflict. We rise above by welcoming the Holy Spirit’s vision in place of our perceptions of everything we experience in the world.

The world was made by the thought of separation to be a place of conflict. The Holy Spirit sees only the reality of Love’s oneness where conflict is impossible. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose to overlook the dream of separation, fear and guilt, we move along the journey leading us back to our rightful place in Heaven’s oneness. We move out of conflict to the certainty of peace and eternal happiness given us by our Creator.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to guide our vision and teach us to recognize the mistaken beliefs that block our awareness of Love’s presence.

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