⁴Think not that you can set a goal unlike God’s purpose for you, and establish it as changeless and eternal. ⁵You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. ⁶But you can not remove the power to change your mind, and see another purpose there.
Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. ²You were not born to die. ³You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. ⁴All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. ⁵Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use. ⁶Its purpose ended, it is gone. ⁷And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. ⁸Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. ⁹There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. ¹⁰Life’s function cannot be to die. ¹¹It must be life’s extension, that it be as one forever and forever, without end.
How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! ²How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! ³And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! ⁴Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VI.3:4–4:11;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Forgiveness is the way to release the ego belief that death is real. God’s Love is eternal and changeless. Love is Life. When Love is denied, the illusion of death replaces the Reality of eternal Life.
The entire dream of bodies in a world of separate images is the effect of the wish for special Love. Love is one and must be given equally to all to be Itself. Only a dream of specialness could hide the eternal Life we live in God. Because this dream denies Life, it must seem to end in death, though death could never occur in truth.
Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive the mistaken wish for specialness. Without that wish, we are free to live the life of Love in oneness with our Creator.
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