The past is over. It can touch me not.
Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. It has no past. For 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. For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your final step. Shall 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 Workbook Lesson 289, W-pII.289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)
Judgment is the ego’s mechanism for projecting the past onto the present. This projection hides the only reality that is now—Love. Judgment depends upon perceiving separation and believing it is real. This belief denies the oneness of Love and makes It unknown to us.
To restore Love to our awareness, we need to let go of the past through forgiveness. This is why the Course’s central focus is on forgiveness. It is the means for restoring our mind to the awareness of Love’s oneness. We are so entrenched in the beliefs of the ego thought system that we need to ask for help from the Teacher Who knows that only Love is real.
We cannot use the ego’s logic to forgive because this logic is based upon a false premise and leads to a meaningless result. The false premise is that separation is real. The ego’s version of forgiveness does not forget the past.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit for His help to release the past from our split mind. We want His help to heal the split and unite us with all our brothers in the peace and joy of the Love. As we accept His help, the conflict and fear engendered by the past fade and Love lights our mind.
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