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The Great Release from Time

Mary:
This morning in our reading of A Course in Miracles, we came across one of the most helpful passages of the Text for me:

Forgiveness is the great release from time. It is the key to learning that the past is over. Madness speaks no more. There is no other teacher and no other way. For what has been undone no longer is. And who can stand upon a distant shore, and dream himself across an ocean to a place and time that have long since gone by? How real a hindrance be to where he really is? For this is fact, and does not change whatever dreams he has. Yet can he still imagine he is elsewhere, and in another time. In the extreme, he can delude himself that this is true, and pass from mere imagining into belief and into madness, quite convinced that where he would prefer to be, he is. (T-26.V.6)

This paragraph really helps me let go of taking the world so seriously. This world of separate bodies truly is just a dream and could never be true. We are all safe in the Mind of Love. We are just imagining that we are elsewhere and in another time. Forgiveness helps release me from this great delusion. My opportunity today is to remain open to my inner Teacher, Who reminds me that in truth we all have never left Heaven, and illusions of separation are nothing and nowhere. This remembering returns me to peace and remembering that we all are safe. Thank you God.

Robert:
When I am dreaming at night, the bed, the room, the house my body is in are completely excluded from my awareness. My “reality” is the images of a dream and nothing else seems to exist. Likewise, the dream of this world that seems to be filled with separate bodies and separate things excludes awareness of the Home that I am in and could never leave. While I believe in the dream, Heaven is unknown.

Because Heaven is reality and the dream is unreal, I cannot experience Heaven while I believe one aspect of the dream is real. That is why forgiveness is the great release from time. Forgiveness is the release from belief in separation, symbolized by time and distance. Forgiveness lets go of symbols as they are recognized as meaningless.

My job is to be willing to be taught by the Inner Teacher to recognize the meaningless. This is why I must question everything I perceive and everything I believe. The willingness to question opens the door to be taught anew by the Teacher Whose only purpose is to lead me Home. Today I will practice stepping back from each perception to receive the Holy Spirit’s vision.

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