The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The Great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release.
All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.5:1-6:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Unforgiveness casts a dark shadow over the reality of Love, making It invisible to us. The dream world we see is the effect of the wish for special Love, which is the denial of God’s Love. The wish for specialness has produced the perception of a world of images of bodies and things, of differences and loss and lack. Thus what needs to be forgiven is the wish for specialness.
As we are willing to accept the help of the Great Transformer in our minds, the dark shadow of specialness is lifted, revealing the eternal, changeless Light of Love that we have kept hidden, but never lost. Forgiveness is the key to happiness because forgiveness clears the way for the acceptance of God’s Love. And joy is an attribute of Love.
Let us today practice bringing all our perceptions to the Great Transformer of perception so that the way can be cleared to experience the beauty and joy of our Home in God.
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