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The Purpose of Forgiveness

You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. ²Is it your decision to do so? ³You recognize from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep. ⁴Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all. ⁵You do not think this strange, even though all the laws of what you awaken to were violated while you slept. ⁶Is it not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another, without really waking?

⁷When you remember [waken], you will know that what you remember is eternal, and therefore is now.

You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly, for if to desire wholly is to create, you will have willed away the separation, returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator and your creations. ²Knowing Them you will have no wish to sleep, but only the desire to waken and be glad. ³Dreams will be impossible because you will want only truth, and being at last your will, [oneness] will be yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-10.I.2;3:7–4:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The purpose of forgiveness is to let go of all beliefs and thoughts of specialness. The wish for specialness appears in our experience as judgments, guilt, fear, loneliness and sadness. These can only occur when we are unaware of the oneness of Love in which we live and have our being.

The truth in us desires only to be united with Love and extend It without limit. This is the Will we share with our Creator. Our function here in the world is to forgive and let go of all our barriers to Love. We welcome the help of the Holy Spirit to fulfill our function.

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