This holy instant is salvation come.
What joy there is today! It is a time of special celebration. For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. This is the time of hope for countless millions. They will be united now, as you forgive them all. For I will be forgiven by you today.
We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 241, W-pII.241. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)
The ego is a grievance against God. It is like a rebellious teenager, unwilling to accept the universal gifts of joy and peace our Father gives to His Son. The ego is the wish to have a unique domain it can call its own without interference from God’s Will of joy, peace and Love. So it makes up a world that must exclude God’s gifts. This is a world of sorrow, conflict, fear and death that overshadows God’s Universe of eternal joy, peace and Love.
All the images and experiences of this made-up world represent the core grievance against accepting God’s gifts. Every time we experience unhappiness, guilt and fear, even in the form of the slightest sigh of frustration, is based upon the ego’s core grievance against God. It cannot forgive God for not yielding to its demand for specialness because it would mean the ego would cease to seem to exist.
Each time we forgive a mistaken perception, a false belief, we make way for the acceptance of God’s joy. All those forms that must be forgiven pass as we let the Holy Spirit teach us to see with the eyes of Love. We gradually learn that all the different things that need forgiveness are really just disguises for the one grievance behind them all. When forgiveness is complete, our grievance against God is let go. We release the world to let Love be our one Reality. We celebrate in joy, for we have returned Home.
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