Each hour, spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. ²And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. ³The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. ⁴Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. ⁵Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.
This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:
³I will forgive, and this will disappear.
⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.12:1–13:7. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)
Here we have the practice that will heal anything that disturbs our peace of mind. It requires vigilance throughout the day, because we have become accustomed to the ego thought system. We have convinced ourselves that we are a body, weak and vulnerable. This conviction is necessary to maintain the idea of specialness that we treasure.
Today we can accept a different view of our world. This view sees with forgiving eyes. It sees the certainty of Love in which we live. It forgives all the images that seem to attack us. It will help us disconnect from our mistaken identification with the body. The world we have seen will disappear when we identify with the Self that God created as His Son. Love is our Identity. Fear cannot exist in the oneness of Love. We remain eternally safe in our Father’s Love.
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