Correction is not your function. It belongs to One Who knows of fairness, not of guilt. If you assume correction’s role, you lose the function of forgiveness. No one can forgive until he learns correction is but to forgive, and never to accuse. Alone, you cannot see [correction and forgiveness] are the same, and therefore is correction not of you. Identity and function are the same [Love extends only Love], and by your function do you know yourself. And thus, if you confuse your function with the function of Another, you must be confused about yourself and who you are. What is the separation but a wish to take God’s function from Him and deny that it is His? Yet if it is not His [function] it is not yours, for you must lose what you would take away.
Correction must be left to One Who knows correction and forgiveness are the same. With half a mind this is not understood. Leave, then, correction to the Mind that is united, functioning as one because it is not split in purpose, and conceives a single function as its only one. …In His acceptance of this function lies the means whereby your mind is unified. His single purpose unifies the halves of you that you perceive as separate. And each forgives the other, that he may accept his other half as part of him. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.II.10;16. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
God is Love and nothing else. Love’s only function is to extend Love. Love cannot be divided. When we identify with the ego thought of separation, we are choosing to judge against Love’s oneness. It is this error in thought that must be corrected. The part of our mind that believes separation is real is incapable of correcting this error. This is why correction is not our function as we perceive ourselves.
Correction and forgiveness are the same because, through forgiveness, we heal the mistaken perceptions of separation, our barriers to Love’s presence. This healing comes when we accept the Holy Spirit’s perception of Love’s oneness in place of our perceptions of separation. The practice of bringing all our thoughts of separation to the Holy Spirit and accepting His vision of unity in their place is how we forgive and let go of the dream of separation. This is how we heal our split mind and accept our oneness with Love, our true Self.
Today we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s correction of our perception that we may let go of our barriers to Love.
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