…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him. That is His Will. And thus His Will provides the means to guarantee that it is done.
Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. Yet that is the content underneath the form.
Forgive, and you will see this differently.
These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear. These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.
How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? Does pain seem real in the perception? If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.
God would not have you suffer thus. He would help you forgive yourself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 193, W-pI.193.1:2-4;4:1-2;5;7;8:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)
“Forgiveness is the key to happiness.” (Lesson 122) It is important to learn that anything that disturbs our peace is the result of unforgiveness. This is because the dream of separation is built upon the ego’s unwillingness to accept God’s gift of all His Love, joy and peace. All the forms in the world are outward pictures of the unforgiving mind’s belief in separation.
When we forgive God for not giving us specialness, the dream of separation fades away. We remove the barriers we made in our mind to “protect” against God’s Love. The way is cleared to awaken to the indescribable joy and peace that cannot be disturbed which are attributes of God’s Love.
This is why everything we perceive in the world is an opportunity to learn forgiveness. When forgiveness is complete, the dream world disappears into the nothingness from which it came.
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