It is your Father’s holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self.
⁵God created One Who has the power to translate in form the wholly formless. ⁶What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to waking that the light of day already shines in them, and eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain.
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. ²Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone.
⁵Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home. ⁶Only forgiveness can restore the peace that God intended for His holy Son. ⁷Only forgiveness can persuade the Son to look again upon his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-192.1:1;3:5-4:2;5:5-7A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 192, )
Forgiveness is the key to happiness and peace of mind. It sees past the images of the world—the forms that seem to come and go, bringing moments of pleasure that can quickly turn into fear and pain. Forgiveness reveals the changeless Love that unites us with every brother held safely in the mind of Love.
No matter how enticing the images of the world seem, they represent a barrier the ego conjures to hide the truth of Love’s presence. Love has no form. Being the denial of Love, the ego can offer only meaningless forms as a substitute for the truth. Our belief in them makes them seem real. Because of this investment in the ego, we need help from beyond this world to recognize the ego’s delusions for what they are.
The Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to our mistaken belief in separation. He communicates with us in forms we can understand to help us recognize the forms in the world stand for nothing in truth. We cannot learn this without His help. Our willingness to learn from the Holy Spirit is all that is needed for us to let Love step forward from behind the ego’s veil.
We welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons by stepping back from our engagement in the world. We pause and focus on the peace of God within us. We relax and let peace grow stronger in our awareness. As we let peace fill our mind, the Holy Spirit speaks to us and offers His vision to see the presence of Love beyond the images of separation.
Today we practice attending to the Holy Spirit’s lessons.
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