Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.
Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God’s plan for salvation will not work. Yet only His plan will work. By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. I would no longer defeat my own best interests in this insane way. I would accept God’s plan for salvation, and be happy.
Specific applications for this idea might be in these forms:
I am choosing between misperception and salvation as I look on this.
If I see grounds for grievances in this, I will not see the grounds for my salvation.
This calls for salvation, not attack. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 86, W-pI.86.3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 86 Insights.)
To be happy we need to accept God’s plan for salvation because God’s Will for His Son is perfect happiness. Every grievance, anything that disturbs our peace of mind, is a denial of God’s plan for our happiness. If we observe how we feel when we have a grievance, an unforgiveness, we see that consistently we are not happy.
Clearly the antidote for this unhappiness is forgiveness. But it is forgiveness that is not of this world. True forgiveness comes from accepting the Holy Spirit’s perception in the world in place of our own. Our perceptions are always based on fear.
For every unsettling or unhappy perception today, we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. When we accept His healing, we are accepting God’s plan for our salvation. We are accepting God’s joy in the present and letting go of our grievances from the past. This practice will lead to a happy day today.
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