A New Way to See

Condemnation is…..

I recently had some thoughts around some Workbook lessons from ACIM. Thoughts that attempt to form a truth to replace the idle thoughts or sick thoughts in my mind.

“Only my condemnation injures me.”
Condemnation is an unforgiveness.
Condemnation is a judgment, a grievance, a grudge, a form of rage however it may be masked.
These are thoughts I have accepted from the ego, (that disguise the belief) that I am unworthy of Love, and the ego system says to be rid of the self hatred, I must throw it “out” onto another form. It still identifies the body as its home, yet still plans to make the body “die,” so it can reign supreme in its world. It does not see its own contradiction.
The opposite of condemnation is forgiveness. Condemnation injures me, keeps me in prison. Forgiveness heals and sets me free. Forgiveness heals the mind that thought it could sin.

Another workbook lesson offers the truth: “There is no condemnation in God and none in me.”

If I condemn my brother, I am condemning myself and keeping the belief that I am unworthy of Love—the belief that God does not hold me worthy because “I” attacked Him and left Him.
If I attack my brother, it is for any fear he reflects to me that are simply my own hidden fears. Fears of failure, fears of lack, fears of worthlessness, fears of abandonment, fears of retaliation.

The Holy Spirit would take my “special” relationship and show me the barriers I hold trying to deny Love. That’s all they are, and He would use the relationship as the means to help me release the unreal thoughts that hold the mind in prison. He would help me by giving me thoughts to shine away the dark shadows. He would lift me up, walking with me on the path I have chosen in the dream. He is always talking softly to me, ever patient for me to turn an ear to Him and receive His healing words or feelings.

I can look at my past and say: I did not know then, what I know now. Those mistakes I am willing to let go. Those pictures I am willing to let go. My true Self cannot be harmed—neither can my brother be harmed.

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