Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. ²It does not pardon sins and make them real. ³It sees there was no sin. ⁴And in that view are all your sins forgiven. ⁵What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? ⁶Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. ⁷What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. ²The mind is closed, and will not be released.”
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. ²It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. ³It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. …he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. ²He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. ³Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.1.1:1–2:2;4:1-3,5–5:3.)
Because the ego is not real, it must constantly occupy our minds with its denial of reality. It offers us a dream filled with images that seem convincingly real. Only our interest in specialness keeps it in place.
When we let the Holy Spirit show us the truth of our oneness with All in God’s Love, we see past the ego’s denials. It becomes clear that nothing can occur to change our eternal unity in Love. There is nothing external to our true Identity to judge against. We cease engaging with the ego’s denials. We let our forgiveness show us how to let the Love we are extend to every brother, and remember we remain one with our Creator. We just need to let ourselves be the Love we were created to be.
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