It is our function to remember [God] on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer [the Heaven of God’s peace] to us? [Our brother] is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.
We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?
We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. (A Course in Miracles Final Lessons, W-pII.Final Lessons Intro.4:1-6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 361 Insights.)
We are forgiven now because God has never judged against us. He knows us as His Son, an extension of Himself. It is we who must forgive the image we have made of ourselves as separate individuals. What we perceive about our brothers is a projection of what we believe we are. We perceive him as a body because we believe we are a body.
All the attributes we assign to our brother as a body are attributes we have accepted as our own. We believe bodies can harm and be harmed. We believe bodies can die because we believe we can die. These beliefs are constructs of the ego thought system of separation. They seem true only because we believe them. We forgive these illusions by withdrawing our belief in them.
To do this we need the Holy Spirit’s help. The Holy Spirit sees what we see but does not believe them. He uses the images and symbols we have made to teach us what we believe is not true. As we accept His lessons, we forgive the illusions and the memory of God returns to our holy mind.
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