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October - December, 2008

What Is Forgiveness?

Rev. Sally Pankratz

Even though I’ve been a sudent of A Course in Miracles for many years and more recently have also been communing with The Way of Mastery and The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament, I still haven’t felt comfortable with forgiveness. Most times when I read the word, I hear, “What’s forgiveness?” And when I apply what I think it is, it still feels like judgement and guilt.

I’ve been repeating Pathways course 906: Healing through Forgiveness and this past week while I Was meditating on ACIM Lesson 193 and getting excited. Yippee! I’m going to learn the lesson God wants me to learn and I’ll know home again. Then, there it was again, forgiveness, damn.

I asked for Spirit’s help and I got forgiveness is “for giving love ness.” Giving love to my brother, my self, and my Father. Wow! Now that felt totally right. I could do that, or at least I could practice that and it always feels great when I do.

This probably wouldn’t have helped me much previously, either, but I’d just gotten through a long period of questioning what Love actually is. I learned it wasn’t special love, sunday school love, pity love or sacrifice love. I came to see it best and feel it best as NTI describes it: peace, acceptance, joy; recognition or remembering, and always, the purpose of One.

Thank you Holy Spirit. Works for me!

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