The past is over. It can touch me not.
Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. ²For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. ³How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? ⁴This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. ⁵It has no past. ⁶For 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. ²For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. ³Here is the end of guilt. ⁴And here am I made ready for Your final step. ⁵Shall 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, W-289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)
The ego is wholly focused on the past. Its concept of time makes the past unchangeable and forever bound to influence the future. The ego knows nothing about the present because the present is timeless.
The Holy Spirit is our teacher Whose purpose is to help us learn that nothing exists in the past or future. Only present Love is real. If we give Him a chance to teach us how to look upon the past, we will realize that it is not here in the present. The past cannot alter the present moment because it only seems to exist in a dream built upon “memories” of the past. By definition, a memory is not now. Without the ability to have any effect now, the past is meaningless and nothing.
This we will learn if we are willing to consistently choose the Holy Spirit as our Teacher and Guide in our daily lives. His purpose for time is to use it for forgiveness, to let the past go. Free of the past, the radiant Love of the present moment fills our lives.
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