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Forgiveness Makes Way for Love’s Return

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.

³Forgiveness represents your function here.

…God 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. ³Forgiveness 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. (A Course in Miracles, W-192.1:1;2:3;3:5–4:3. See also ACIM Lesson 192 Insights.)

The world we perceive represents the ego’s refusal to accept God’s gift of all of His Love. Because only Love is real, the ego made a dream which seems to present an alternate reality. It could never be true. But if we believe it is true, we cannot experience the reality of the Love we are, forever held within God’s Love.

God’s Voice calls us to awaken as He gently guides us to forgive our misperceptions. Each forgiven misperception loosens our attachment to the ego’s wish for specialness. We have diligently taught ourselves to believe the dream is real. Now we must learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons which show us that nothing the ego offers will satisfy our need to be the Self God created one with Him.

As we learn that the dream offers nothing of value, we lay it down. We open our mind to the Light of Love which shows us our unity with every brother. Forgiveness offers us the means to awaken from the dream and accept our place in the Home God created one with Him.

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