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April-June, 2023

Love Holds No Grievances

by Rev. Christine Anderson, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

As I practice returning to Love each day, every circumstance provides new opportunities to heal my mind and return to the truth that we are all Love and nothing else.

The following quote from ACIM Workbook Lesson 71 helped me with an experience I had recently.

“The ego’s plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. It maintains that, if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some external circumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. Thus, the source of salvation is constantly perceived as outside yourself. Each grievance you hold is a declaration, and an assertion in which you believe, that says, “If this were different, I would be saved.” The change of mind necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything except yourself.” (W-pI.71.2)

One morning I woke up, but I was still very sleepy. I was approached in a very hurried manner by an aide who works at the facility where I live. I just wanted her to go away and let me sleep. It was still dark out. Why are they getting me up?

The next thing I knew I was thrashing my feet, trying to keep her away from me, but not for the purpose of causing any injury. Things were getting worse by the minute. This was not a pretty scene. I was not very happy about this and started forming judgments about her.

But somewhere in my mind I was remembering that all mistakes are forgivable.

The way things were unfolding told me right away I was not at peace. It was obvious I was projecting from my own mind and I remembered that projection causes perception. Remember, projection is just the inability to be honest about something that we do not want to look at in ourselves. And so we project it on the other person.

In my moment of insanity, where I was forgetting my true identity as a Child of God, I called out to Holy Spirit for help in my mind and the chaos suddenly ended and I was left alone.

As time went on, the aide came in to talk to me about what was going on at that time. I said to her that in that circumstance, I was not at peace and I asked for her forgiveness and I apologized profusely.

As a student of A Course in Miracles, I needed to remember the real meaning of forgiveness for myself. And that is nothing ever really happened. Only Love is real. So that was the beginning of forgiveness for myself.

So my friend and I parted for a couple of days and then she returned again to talk to me about the matter. She expressed to me she was having a hard time forgiving me. And then the miracle happened. She asked if we could pray together to help her let go of her grievance.

I responded, “Of course we could!” We held hands for a moment of silence and we waited to see what the prayer would be.

The prayer went as follows,

“Dear loving Father, we ask for the awareness of Your Love and peace right now in this present moment. We had a misunderstanding and are willing to let it go.

We thank you Father for all the blessings of this day, those to come, but most of all we give thanks for this present moment for the peace and Love and the awareness that all is well.”

I thank God for this miracle of joining to let go of the grievance and return to Love, our true Nature. I see my friend in reality as the Christ. And I love and appreciate her for joining with me to experience the miracle of forgiveness of letting go of our grievances.

And so now when we greet each other, we sing a little song which is sung to the tune of “Let it snow.” Instead the words are, “Let it go, let it go, let it go.”

In singing this song, we are reinforcing that we were willing to let go of the grievance that we had. It is as if it never happened. When I see her, I feel only peace. There is no sign of anything else. I remember that only Love is real and Love holds no grievances.

There is a song that is called “Love Holds No Grievances” by Charley Thweatt. It is a wonderful song to remind us of the blessing of forgiveness. Go to YouTube and key it in.

Below is an excerpt from Lesson 68, paragraph 6 that will help you to see your friend forgiven:

“Determine now to see these people as friends. Say to them all, thinking of each one in turn as you do so:

Spend the remainder of the practice period trying to think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, and that you love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way.”

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