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Giving Ourselves the Gift of Forgiveness

This instant is the only time there is.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. ²If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. ³Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. ⁴The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. ⁵For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. ⁶The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. ⁷He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. ⁸And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. ²It is now I am redeemed. ³This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)

Forgiveness is always about letting go of the past. Since the past does not exist except in memories in the mind, forgiveness lets go of illusions which were never real. They cannot exist in the present moment.

As we practice letting the Holy Spirit help us be aware of what is real and present now, we welcome the holy instant. In this instant we recognize that only Love is real. We see its unifying bond that keeps us eternally connected to our Creator and all His creations. In this instant of forgiveness, we experience the peace and joy that is our natural state. We see a forgiven world, wholly loving and free of guilt and fear.

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Asking of Holy Spirit, “What Is This For?”

The beautiful relationship you have with all your brothers is a part of you because it is a part of God Himself.

Either there is a gap between you and your brother, or you are as one. ²There is no in between, no other choice, and no allegiance to be split between the two. …[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. ²It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. ³Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. ⁴It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. ⁵It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. ⁶All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. ⁷No forms of sickness are immune, because the choice cannot be made in terms of form. ⁸The choice of sickness seems to be of form, yet it is one, as is its opposite. ⁹And you are sick or well, accordingly.

…the body can be seen as what it is, and neither less nor more in worth than the extent to which it can be used to liberate God’s Son unto his home. ⁸And with this holy purpose is it made a home of holiness a little while, because it shares your Father’s Will with you. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.2:1;3:1-2,6;4;7:7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What is this for? We must ask this question of Holy Spirit for all our perceptions. Our own answer would misinterpret everything as long as we identify with the ego. This is because the ego’s purpose for everything is to maintain our wish to be separate from our Creator. It denies God’s eternal union with all His creation.

The Holy Spirit sees a different purpose for all our perceptions. He sees them all as teaching aids to help us recognize them as reflections of our beliefs about ourselves that need to be forgiven. As we let Him answer this important question, we will learn to choose to see past form to the Light of Love that surrounds us. We will learn that we are free of the body’s limitations. His purpose sets us free to accept the eternal Love that is God’s Will for us.

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Accepting the Touch of Christ

All things are given you. ²God’s trust in you is limitless. ³He knows His Son. ⁴He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. ⁵And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. ⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?

Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. ²This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.

Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God’s gifts go with him, all unknown to him. ²He cannot lose them. ³But he will not look at what is given him. ⁴He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. ⁵Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.

³One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” ⁴He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.”

²Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. ³God has entrusted all His gifts to you. ⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. (A Course in Miracles, W-166.1:1–2:2;5;1:3-4;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

We are never alone. Loneliness is a sign of misidentification with the ego. The ego is the choice to be separate, limited and alone. It is the denial of God’s gifts of all His Love, peace and joy.

When we forgive our mistaken beliefs, the illusion of a world of ephemeral images that never last fades into the background. As we forgive the world of all we thought it was, the vision of Christ shows us the unity of Love. We see nothing that disturbs our peace of mind, We joyously accept our oneness with our brothers. We experience the blessings of living in God’s Love.

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Accepting the Joy of Our Unity in Love

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. ²It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.

God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. ²Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. ³Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.

Here is the answer! ²Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? ³Forgive and be forgiven. ⁴As you give you will receive. ⁵There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. ⁶Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. ⁷All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-122.3:1-2;5–6. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

We see a world of bodies because we did not laugh at the idea of wanting something we could call our own alone. Being different in any way demands that we be separate from what we perceive. This demand shuts us out of our Reality in the uniform oneness of God’s Love. We can return to the joy and peace of God’s Love by forgiving that one wish that underlies all we perceive in the world.

When that wish has been let go, the chaotic world we saw will no longer seem to exist. We will see everyone united with us in Love. The face of Christ is the symbol of that recognition. All we truly want is to be our true Self, the Son of God. There is no greater joy or peace to be found outside the Love that is our Home in unity with our Creator.

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Letting Christ’s Vision Set Us Free

Who can be born again in Christ but him who has forgiven everyone he sees or thinks of or imagines? ²Who could be set free while he imprisons anyone? ³A jailer is not free, for he is bound together with his prisoner. ⁴He must be sure that he does not escape, and so he spends his time in keeping watch on him. ⁵The bars that limit him become the world in which his jailer lives, along with him. ⁶And it is on his freedom that the way to liberty depends for both of them.

Therefore, hold no one prisoner. ²Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. ³The way is simple. ⁴Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. ⁵And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free. ⁶Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior from the prison house of death. ⁷And so you owe him thanks instead of pain.

Be merciful today. ²The Son of God deserves your mercy. ³It is he who asks that you accept the way to freedom now. ⁴Deny him not. ⁵His Father’s Love for him belongs to you. ⁶Your function here on earth is only to forgive him [Son of God], that you may accept him back as your Identity. ⁷He is as God created him. ⁸And you are what he is. ⁹Forgive him now his sins, and you will see that you are one with him. (A Course in Miracles, W-192.8–10. See also ACIM Lesson 192 Insights.)

We are born again in Christ when we accept our true Identity as God’s one Son. We are as unlimited as God because He shared all that He is with His Son.

But seeing anyone, including ourselves, as a body is attempting to place a limit on God. The ego uses the body and all its senses to reinforce our belief that we are separate and limited. The body’s vulnerability stimulates defensiveness and a need to protect ourselves from harm. Potential danger seems to surround us.

Yet only Love is real. Nothing exists outside of Love. The way to freedom is to accept that we are Love and nothing else. As we learn to accept that the reality of everyone is only Love, we set the world free from fear and guilt. We feel the happiness and peace that come with letting ourselves be the Love we were created to be. Today we call upon the vision of Christ to help us see that we are innocent and accept our place in the home our Father created for us.

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Remembering the Love We Are

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” ²Now need I seek no more. ³Love has prevailed. ⁴So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. ⁵And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. ²And thanks to You for saving me from them. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-229.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

The ego believes that lack of Love is possible. It sends us on endless searches for outside sources to find it where it cannot be found. This is its defense against the thing it fears the most. When we realize that we are the Love we seek, the ego will cease to seem to exist.

The Course is teaching us that we are not the ego or any of its illusions. We already are the Love we thought we lost when we bought into the ego though system. Love is everywhere and in everyone.

As we let go of our identification with the ego, we increasingly experience the joy and peace that comes with accepting that we are Love and nothing else. We recognize everyone as part of our one Self, the Son of God. In gratitude, we rest in God’s Love.

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Remembering All We Truly Want

God does not suffer conflict. ²Nor is His creation split in two. ³How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? ⁴Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? ⁵Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God’s single purpose. ⁶He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

²No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. …we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. ²Salvation’s time has come. ³Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. ⁴If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

⁵Today I seek and find all that I want.
⁶My single purpose offers it to me.
⁷No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.8;10:2-3;15. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we have never left the Heaven of His Love. But our wish for specialness has made an alternate ‘reality’ which we have accepted in place of the reality of Love’s oneness. Yet our heart still yearns to respond to the Love’s call. It is the call of Truth.

Today we remember that our heart’s desire is to be the Love we were created to be. We accept this reality with the singular purpose of forgiving the wish for specialness. As we learn to forgive its myriad forms, we learn that they all represent the single mistaken belief that we could be separate from our Source. With this practice, we reach the truth. We remember the life we live in God’s eternal Love.

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