Let me forget my brother’s past today.
This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. ²I cannot come to You without my brother. ³And to know my Source, I first must recognize what [my brother] You created one with me. ⁴My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. ⁵His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. ⁶Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. ⁷My brother is my savior. ⁸Let me not attack the savior You have given me. ⁹But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.
Forgive me, then, today. ²And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. ³He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he. (A Course in Miracles, W-288. See also ACIM Lesson 288 Insights.)
It seems strange that we would need to forgive Jesus. But the Course is teaching us that the holiness he represents is our own and every brother’s. We are equally holy as God’s Son.
If we judge any brother, we are not recognizing his holiness nor our own. Seen truly, every brother is our savior, for he demonstrates our eternal unity with God. We cannot see this if we trust what the body shows us, for the body shows us only illusions. The key to our salvation is accepting the Holy Spirit’s help and His gift of Christ’s vision. This is how we forgive our brother for the past the ego would lay upon him. Without the dark shadow of the past, we see the Light of Love in him and recognize it in ourselves.
We hold our brother’s hand as we let the Holy Spirit show us our unity. We walk together with our brothers into full remembrance of Love’s oneness in God.
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