The past is over. It can touch me not.
Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. ²For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. ³How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? ⁴This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. ⁵It has no past. ⁶For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.
Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. ²For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. ³Here is the end of guilt. ⁴And here am I made ready for Your final step. ⁵Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain? (A Course in Miracles, W-289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)
All of our unhappiness, fear and guilt come from thoughts about the past. It doesn’t seem to us that the past does not exist and never was. Memories about the past are the ego’s trick to block our awareness of the present moment.
Love is all there is in the present moment. In It’s oneness, Love is eternally peaceful. Love joyously extends Itself, giving Itself freely, without limit. As we let ourselves dwell in the present by forgiving the past, we join with our Creator in the eternal extension of Love.
This is our true vocation, our natural Home. We are eternally safe from all intrusions of a past that never was. Today we remember to let go of the past and claim our inheritance as God’s Son.
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