God is the only goal I have today.
The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other way. If sin [separation] had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are? Who would still be uncertain? Who could be unsure of who he is? And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless? Here we can but dream. But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today. God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.
And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 256, W-pII.256. See also ACIM Lesson 256 Insights.)
Our true Self remains eternally united with God in Love. But the dream of a world of bodies and separation hides our true Self from our awareness. The means to return Home to oneness is forgiveness. True forgiveness requires the help of the Holy Spirit to show us that what we thought happened in the dream never occurred in truth.
The split mind that dreams of a world of separation is incapable of forgiveness because it is the denial of Love. By God’s grace we have been given the Holy Spirit to guide us to the reinterpretation of all our perceptions in the dream.
The Holy Spirit will show us the truth behind our misperceptions. As we learn His lessons, the world’s images of separation, fear and guilt fade and lose their seeming importance. As the dream becomes increasingly a dream of forgiveness, we live with a happy heart, free to Love and free to be our true Self. We lay down the dream of separation and awaken to our Home in God. Today we ask the Holy Spirit for help to heal our misperceptions.
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