Forgiveness represents your function here.
Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone. Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid, to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all.
Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home. Only forgiveness can restore the peace that God intended for His holy Son. Only forgiveness can persuade the Son to look again upon his holiness. (W-pI.192.2:3;4:1-3;5:5-7)
As we learn all that forgiveness does, it is no wonder that forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness clears away all that is untrue and brings us back to the recognition that God’s Will for us, as His one Son, is perfect happiness.
It seems difficult to let go of the world because we have convinced ourselves that forms in the world are valuable. Letting go of what we value seems to be a sacrifice. The ego is constantly offering forms that seem to be desirable, yet have no real substance. The center of the ego’s focus is the body, its chosen home. When we identify with the body, we are identifying with the ego. We are identifying with a false idea that could never be true.
We need to practice choosing the Holy Spirit as our “fact checker.” Within the ego thought system we have no real reference with which to sort the true from the false. We need to choose the Holy Spirit, given us by the Source of Truth, to help us distinguish the true from the false. As we learn to recognize the false for what it is, we easily let it go with no sense of loss.
Today we will practice asking the Holy Spirit for His vision to look through us on all that we perceive. With His help, we will recognize the truth and welcome it.
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