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The Purpose of Forgiveness

Mary:
I am seeing that forgiveness is my only purpose. A way to define forgiveness is let go and let God.

I am recognizing that I made up a story and believed that it was real. Through the daily process of forgiveness, I am learning again and again that the story is not true. As I daily practice stepping back and quietly asking what is true, the answer I receive again and again is that only Love is true. Now the purpose of each day is to practice accepting this more and more.

I still find myself thinking that something other than Love is true, and my opportunity now is to catch these times of misperception and hand them over to the Holy Spirit to be undone. This is the purpose of every day. The purpose of forgiveness opens my heart and mind to the beautiful and glorious truth that the whole Sonship is still the pure Light of Love and has never changed.

I need mind purification until I am not tempted by yet another form of specialness. And so today I have another opportunity to forgive and forget the story that something could happen to change God’s one Son.

Robert:
The need for forgiveness arises when I believe in an image of myself as separate from Love—I am identifying with a body image that can be harmed in some way. Because this image is believed to be separate from God, a sense of unworthiness and vulnerability is inevitable.

Unworthiness is not a happy feeling. The ego’s answer to this is to project unworthiness on other body images. If someone else is more unworthy, then I seem to be less unworthy. This does not really accomplish anything, for it holds the idea that unworthiness is possible firmly in the mind. It does not question the truth of the perceived unworthiness.

The purpose of forgiveness is to remove the belief in unworthiness and separation entirely from the confused mind that believes the image is true. This relief can only come from the part of my mind that does not believe it, but remembers that I, along with all my brothers, remain as Love created me. This is why I must bring all thoughts of fear, guilt, judgment and limitation to the Holy Spirit to receive His kind and gentle correction. From the Mind that knows the truth, the misperception that it is possible to be separate from Love is corrected.

Today I dedicate to practice letting Holy Spirit guide all my perceptions, that I may see the Love He sees.

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