Mary:
This morning we read Lessons 192 and 193 in A Course in Miracles. What was most helpful to me is:
Each hour spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. Let no one hour cast its shadow on the hour that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.
This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus: I will forgive, and this will disappear. To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. God will take the final step Himself. Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him.” (W-pI.193.12-13)
This is just what I needed this morning to clear my thoughts of misperceptions. I still find it too easy to get lost in the dream and forget it is not God’s Will that separate bodies be real. Jesus gives me very clear direction to apply to all “happenings” each hour of this day. When I am making separation real, I am not forgiving the false idea of separation.
Applying “I will forgive and this will disappear” to each circumstance of the hour helps clear my mind and makes way for the return of peace. Do I want to stay lost in the dream or do I want to awaken to my one Reality in the Mind of God? “I will forgive and this will disappear” is my touchstone to bring me back from insanity once again. I do not need to make separation real. I do not need to continue denying the Life I live in God. Applying each hour “I will forgive and this will disappear” is the way to free myself from the prison I have made by believing in the ego’s false ideas.
Holy Spirit to Robert:
Seek not for certainty in the world. Illusions have no substance and no stability. Certainty can only be found in the changelessness of Love. Certainty can only be found in the one Self you share with all. Forgiveness is the means to let go of your investment in making illusions seem real. In the release of illusions, the certainty of your Self is revealed. Let go. Offer Me all your thoughts about the world. I will use them on your behalf to teach you the lesson God would have you learn: Only Love is real.
Walk with Me today, and it will be a happy day of learning that will lead you to the real world, the forgiven world.
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