How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? ²Does pain seem real in the perception? ³If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. ⁴And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.
God would not have you suffer thus. ²He would help you forgive yourself.
This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:
³I will forgive, and this will disappear.
⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 193, W-193.7:1–8:2;13:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)
There is only one lesson God would have us learn, but it takes many forms in the world we seem to live in. The ego’s images overlay the formlessness of God’s all encompassing, changeless Love. Forgiveness undoes the images the ego makes which represent its grievance against God’s Love.
There is a clear symptom that helps us recognize the need for forgiveness. Does our perception include pain or any disturbance of our peace? These disturbances can be a gift from God if we recognize they opportunity they offer to forgive. Each time we recognize that our perception is not peaceful and loving becomes a gift when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with His vision. His vision sees past the illusion to the Reality of Love’s presence everywhere, always.
Let us accept His gifts today by responding to every disturbance of our peace with the thought, “I will forgive and this will disappear.”
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