Forgiveness offers everything I want.
God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.
Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will receive. There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth [—Forgiveness offers everything I want]. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 122, W-pI.122.5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)
As long as we identify with the body, we have daily opportunities to practice forgiveness. The body’s eyes see only projections of the belief in separation, the core need of all forgiveness. The appearances in the world of loss, lack, harm and death are all ego representations of separation.
The daily practice of accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to see every appearance as He sees it is a step toward forgiving the core error of believing separation is real. Some appearances seem to be especially egregious and harder to forgive. But this seeming difficulty comes only because we find some value in keeping the guilt, the judgment. We are not yet willing to accept the innocence of the Love that is our true Identity.
The more we practice forgiveness, the less we hang on to our grievances. Situations that may have taken time to forgive are more quickly recognized as minor and easily dismissed. The Holy Spirit’s loving vision sees past the meaningless knowing it has no effect on the changeless reality of Love. With his help, we more quickly recognize appearances of harm as unreal and dismiss them by offering Love from our true Self. Forgiveness offers the Love we have been seeking.
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