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Forgiveness Brings Happiness

The Holy Spirit, ever practical in His wisdom, accepts your dreams and uses them as means for waking. ²You would have used them to remain asleep. ³I said before that the first change, before dreams disappear, is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams. ⁴That is what the Holy Spirit does in the special relationship. ⁵He does not destroy it, nor snatch it away from you. ⁶But He does use it differently, as a help to make His purpose real to you. ⁷The special relationship will remain, not as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom. ⁸It will not be for you alone, for therein lay its misery. ⁹As its unholiness kept it a thing apart, its holiness will become an offering to everyone.

Your special relationship will be a means for undoing guilt in everyone blessed through your holy relationship. ²It will be a happy dream, and one which you will share with all who come within your sight.

⁴In your relationship the Holy Spirit has gently laid the real world; the world of happy dreams, from which awaking is so easy and so natural. ⁵For as your sleeping and your waking dreams represent the same wishes in your mind, so do the real world and the truth of Heaven join in the Will of God. ⁶The dream of waking is easily transferred to its reality. ⁷For this dream reflects your will joined with the Will of God. ⁸And what this Will would have accomplished has never not been done. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.II.6:1–7:2;9:4-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God’s Will is always to be Love. His Love extends without limit. As His Son, His extension of Love, our true Will is to be and extend Love.

Our dreams of limitation and individuality seem real only because we picture a world of separation. We make this dream because it seems to offer us specialness that allows us to keep something we have as our own. These are not happy dreams because we have to constantly defend our specialness.

The way to awaken from our dreams is to forgive the wish for specialness. The Holy Spirit is our Guide to help us recognize the wishes that separate us, and let them go. This forgiveness makes way for the Love of our true Self to shine through.

As we forgive, we experience greater peace, happiness and Love. Our forgiving dream becomes a demonstration that helps all our brothers join us in the happy dream. In this happy dream, our will is joined with God’s to be only Love. Today we choose to forgive and be happy.

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