Daily Inspiration

Learning to Forgive Our Illusions

³The holy instant is the opposite of the ego’s fixed belief in salvation through vengeance for the past. ⁴In the holy instant it is understood that the past is gone, and with its passing the drive for vengeance has been uprooted and has disappeared. ⁵The stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. ⁶Everything is gone except the truth.”

What God has given you is truly given, and will be truly received. ²For God’s gifts have no reality apart from your receiving them. ³Your receiving completes His giving. ⁴You will receive because it is His Will to give. ⁵He gave the holy instant to be given you, and it is impossible that you receive it not because He gave it. ⁶When He willed that His Son be free, His Son was free. ⁷In the holy instant is His reminder that His Son will always be exactly as he was created. ⁸And everything the Holy Spirit teaches is to remind you that you have received what God has given you.

There is nothing you can hold against reality. ²All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. ³Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. ⁴God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. ⁵Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them.” (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.6:3-6;8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is an attempt to “improve” on God’s Creation by providing a scheme that makes special status seem real. Thus it seems to provide a way for individuals to have something they can claim as theirs alone. This can only seem real in illusions, which are filled with fear and guilt: Fear of losing that special “something” and guilt from believing that “thing” was taken away from others.

The holy instant offers us release from dreams of attack and loss. In every now moment, only the oneness of God’s Love exists. There is no past. When we are willing to pause, quiet our mind, and welcome the Holy Spirit’s help, He will teach us to recognize we are free of the past. In that instant we forgive our illusions.

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