Without forgiveness I will still be blind.
Sin is the symbol of attack. Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer. For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ’s vision comes to me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. Brother, come and let me look on you. Your loveliness reflects my own. Your sinlessÂness is mine. You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.
So would I look on everyone today. My brothers are Your Sons. Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well. Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 247, W-pII.247. See also ACIM Lesson 247 Insights.)
Christ’s vision sees only the innocence of God’s Love in everyone. This is why Christ’s vision depends on our forgiveness, on letting go of our belief in images of separation. The world we experience is the projection of the ego’s choice to deny Love and make separation appear real. As long as we believe in the ego’s projections of separation, we are blind to God’s gift of His perfect Love.
Our true Self, Which is united with all in the oneness of God’s Love, is unknown to us. We need the help of the Holy Spirit to see past the ego’s images to Love’s innocence. Our part in forgiveness is to be willing to turn over all our perceptions in the world to the Holy Spirit. He will teach us to recognize the images as meaningless and to see the changeless Love that lies beyond them.
The ego does not know how to teach us to see Love’s innocence because it is the opposite of Love. It cannot teach what it denies. But we have a Helper Whose mission it is to help us remember our true Self, Which is Love and nothing else.
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