Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing but offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth.
[The Holy Spirit’s] gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain.
And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.
Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights., W-pI.137.5:2-3;9:2-11:1)
Forgiveness occurs in the mind. It is the letting go of a false idea that represented a belief in the reality of separation. This false idea projects the illusion of a world of differences where time, space and forms define separate objects in separate places at separate points in time. Yet in the oneness of Love, differences are impossible. Thus the projected world is simply a dream of illusions that could never be real.
The Source of these illusions must be healed through forgiveness to release the mind from false beliefs. We welcome forgiveness by being willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to undo our mistaken beliefs. Willingness begins with accepting the possibility that we do not know what our perceptions mean.
This open door allows us to welcome the Holy Spirit’s interpretation. He will always teach us to look beyond appearances in the world to the presence of Love. He will teach us that attack, harm or loss represent a call for Love because they come from denying Love.
With His help the calls for Love are answered with Christ’s vision that teaches us we are Love, along with every brother. As the Holy Spirit’s lessons are accepted, our mind is healed. The world is transformed from a dream of threat and fear to opportunities to release illusions and extend Love. In this practice we learn that we are Love by teaching only Love.
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