The past is over. It can touch me not.
Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. ²For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. ³How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? ⁴This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. ⁵It has no past. ⁶For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.
Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. ²For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. ³Here is the end of guilt. ⁴And here am I made ready for Your final step. ⁵Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain? (A Course in Miracles, W-289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)
Forgiveness is a gift we give to ourselves and the world. It releases the heavy baggage of past thoughts of guilt and fear. These thoughts are nothing more than stories in our mind that tell us of harm and loss. They are not true.
Nothing has happened to change God’s one Son from being the Love he was created to be. We are His Son. His universe of Love is our home, now and forever. To claim this gift, we need only let go of the baggage we bring from the past. It is a story that is not true based on illusions that could never be real.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the Love in which we live. We want to remember the Love of our brothers and our Father.
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