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Practicing True Forgiveness

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence. There is no thought in all the world that leads to any understanding of the laws [forgiveness] follows, nor the Thought that it reflects. It is as alien to the world as is your own reality. And yet it joins your mind with the reality in you.

Today we practice true forgiveness, that the time of joining be no more delayed. For we would meet with our reality in freedom and in peace. Our practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers, who will follow us to the reality we share with them.

Forgiveness should be practiced through the day, for there will still be many times when you forget its meaning and attack yourself. When this occurs, allow your mind to see through this illusion as you tell yourself:

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Would I accuse myself of doing this?
I will not lay this chain upon myself. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.13:-14:3;17:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

As part of God’s one Son, every brother is one with us. There is no distance nor separation. This is why if we judge another we are judging ourselves. We are in fact accusing ourselves for what we are judging in our brother. This is the opposite of the way the ego thinks.

The ego tells us that when we see guilt in another, we escape guilt in ourselves. This is the ego’s chief defense mechanism — projection. The ego is incapable of forgiveness.

To practice true forgiveness, we need to accept the help of the Guide to forgiveness in our minds. The Holy Spirit will help us see the truth beyond the projection of guilt. When we remind ourselves that when we judge another we judge ourselves, and ask for help to see as Holy Spirit sees, we take another step toward removing the chains that bind us to the world of guilt.

The journey of true forgiveness returns us to Love.

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