[God’s] gentle Voice is calling from the known to the unknowing. He would comfort you, although He knows no sorrow. He would make a restitution, though He is complete; a gift to you, although He knows that you have everything already. He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.
These are the forms which never can deceive, because they come from Formlessness Itself. Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form [forgiveness] you can fulfill your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still. Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 186, W-pI.186.13-14. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)
Everyone in this world is seeking peace and happiness. We seek salvation from the conflict and emptiness that seems to dominate our experience in the world. But if we follow the direction of the ego, we will seek to find salvation in the forms of the world. They never satisfy because forms of themselves have no meaning nor substance.
God’s Voice offers us a form that is not based on the ego’s denial of Love’s oneness. It is the means through which we can learn where our true happiness and peace lie. Through forgiveness we learn that the peace of God is already in us. We learn that we already have God’s gift of joy. We let go of the mistaken search for peace and happiness where they cannot be found.
Forgiveness frees us from the ego’s false image of What we are. We were created as Love’s extension with all the attributes of Love as ours eternally. All that stands between the experience of the Love we are and our awareness of It is belief in the ego’s false images.
As we let God’s Voice teach us true forgiveness, we let go of the false and accept the vision of the Holy Spirit, which shows us our true Self, the Son of God. Forgiveness is the one function in this world that frees us to be the Love, peace and joy of God.
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