Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.
Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception’s ending. ²Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach. ³For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all. ⁴Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth. ⁵Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without. ⁶For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling place of God Himself.
In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin. ²Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your Word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart. (A Course in Miracles, W-336. See also ACIM Lesson 336 Insights.)
The ego believes that it can find peace by arranging an outside world to its liking. This attitude affects all its relationships, its actions and what it says. If it can’t find it easily, it is willing to turn to violence to find the peace it seeks. But as always, the underlying ego principle of seek and do not find leaves the ego unsatisfied.
The means to find our desired peace does not lie in changing an external world, because it Is not real. The peace we seek is already in us. We find this peace by forgiving the wish for specialness, for seeing differences and being separate. With forgiveness, barriers to Love’s presence are laid down. The door is opened to the Love our Creator gave us. In Love’s oneness, we find the only real peace.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our mistaken beliefs and find the peace of God.
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