Without forgiveness I will still be blind.
Sin is the symbol of attack. ²Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer. ³For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ’s vision comes to me. ⁴Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. ⁵Brother, come and let me look on you. ⁶Your loveliness reflects my own. ⁷Your sinlessness is mine. ⁸You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.
So would I look on everyone today. ²My brothers are Your Sons. ³Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well. ⁴Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-247. See also ACIM Lesson 247 Insights.)
Forgiveness is the central theme throughout A Course in Miracles. This lesson makes it clear that our return to awareness of our Self as Love comes only through forgiveness. This world is the effect of the ego’s demand for specialness, which rejects the oneness of Love. As long as we value any aspect of the ego’s thought system of separation, we cannot experience the full scope of God’s gift of Love. And we cannot ask the ego’s help to forgive, for it will not contribute to its own demise.
Fortunately we have Help from outside the ego’s thought system to let go of our mistaken allegiance to the ego. The Holy Spirit is our only means to achieve true forgiveness. But we must do our part. We must be willing to turn over our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His correction. We need be willing to accept His help to heal our fear based thoughts. Together with the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we awaken to the recognition that we are one with the Love that unites us with all our brothers and our Creator.
We dedicate today to being mindful of our perceptions and offering them willingly to the Holy Spirit to receive His gift of Christ’s vision. Through this vision we see past the ego’s projections to the innocence of our brothers and our Self.
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