Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. ²It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.
God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. ²Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. ³Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.
³Forgive and be forgiven. ⁴As you give you will receive. ⁵There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. ⁶Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. ⁷All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth. [Forgiveness offers everything I want.] (A Course in Miracles, W-122.3:1-2;5;6:3-7. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)
Our true Self and God are eternal and exist only in the now moment. In eternity there is no past nor future — only now.
The ego denies eternity. It depends upon “memories” of the past to maintain the illusion of existence. When we forgive, we let go of the past. Without the past, the ego no longer seems to exist. To the ego the future is only a rehash of the past, disguised in different forms. Thus when we forgive the past, we open our mind to the Light of present Love. This is why forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of the past so that we can experience the joy of present Love.
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