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Releasing Fear and Returning to Love

God is the Love in which I forgive.

God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.

Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. Fear condemns and love forgives. Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. It is the means by which illusions disappear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 46, W-pI.46.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 46 Insights.)

God has given us a very simple plan that will return us to the awareness that we are Love, Loved by our Creator and being Loving is our Nature. In the presence of Love, fear disappears because fear comes from the mistaken belief that Love is absent. This is a belief in an illusion, for only Love is real. Forgiveness is the means to undo the mistaken belief that Love is absent. This belief disconnects us from awareness of the oneness of Love.

Forgiveness is the means to release ourselves from the belief that Love is absent. This belief manifests in myriad forms. The central figure in this belief is the body, for it seems to make us separate from other bodies and the world. Bodies seem to cause harm, physically, mentally and emotionally.

Each time we take the perception of any kind of harm to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction, He shows us that the perception has no foundation in truth. The moment we recognize the fear was based on an illusion, we freely let it go. We release ourselves from the mistaken belief that caused the fear. This is God’s plan for our release from fear. It seems like a process that takes time only because we have many false images in our mind that seem to justify fear.

As we practice bringing these images to the Holy Spirit, we begin to recognize that the cause for each fearful image is the same. Our forgiveness generalizes and we experience greater and greater peace. The generalization of our forgiveness accelerates until we reach the point that we fully realize that there is nothing to forgive, for only Love is real.

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