Journal for Day 64
Lesson 60
1 (46) God is the Love in which I forgive.
It [forgiveness] will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.
This lesson has some essential information. For one thing, this is where I am told that God does not forgive because He never condemned. This is certainly not what religion teaches us. It seems to me that I had a hard time letting go of the idea that I need God’s forgiveness.
The next thing it tells us is that the blameless cannot blame. Did you know this before you learned it here? I didn’t. This was completely new information for me. So when I accept my innocence, I won’t see anything to forgive, but in the meantime, I must forgive in order to recognize that I am innocent.
I suppose this means that I must forgive myself and everyone else, including God, and then I will know myself as innocent. This is so important that Jesus ends this paragraph by telling me that it is through forgiveness that I am close enough to Heave that the Love of God can raise me up to Him. Forgiveness readies me for God to take the final step.
2 (47) God is the strength in which I trust.
It is the Love of God in which I forgive and it is His strength in which I trust. This is good news because if I were depending on my own strength, I would not do very well. I never actually forgave anything before I discovered ACIM and learned what true forgiveness entails. Even then, it took years of practicing ACIM before I felt the strength of God stirring in me to the degree that I was able to recognize His reflection on earth.
One of the most complete forgiveness experiences I had was with my ex-husband. I had held many grievances against him and I spent a year after we divorced watching my mind for thoughts that indicated a grievance and letting them be corrected. I then spent more time catching little thoughts that were not completely clean.
Finally, and I don’t know how long this took, but the job was complete. I didn’t need anything from him. I didn’t need him to change in any way. I wasn’t interested in the past and when some past thought came up, I didn’t feel any anger or resentment. It’s really hard to think of a way to describe this, but I absolutely knew this relationship was healed. I also know that I could not have done this with the ego.
3 (48) There is nothing to fear.
I long to experience the world that Jesus talks about in this lesson. He is clear that I am not seeing the world right now. He says that it will not look anything like what I IMAGINE I see now. So I am not seeing the world, I am imagining a world. The world loves me and blesses me. In the world I will recognize in everyone my dearest Friend.
Do you notice that Friend is capitalized? Capitalized words in the Course indicate Divinity. So I think this means that everyone I look at I will see as the Christ. So of course, there will be nothing to fear and since that world exists now, there is nothing to fear now. It is only in my imagination that there is something to fear.
4 (49) God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.
“There is not a moment in which His Voice fails to direct my thoughts, guide my actions and lead my feet.”
This guidance is going on all the time. Sometimes I am listening and sometimes I am not. I don’t pray for guidance so much as I pray for the good sense to listen to guidance. LOL. May I hear Your Voice speak to me all through the day.
5 (50) I am sustained by the Love of God.
God’s Love, God’s Voice, God’s strength, I am sustained by Him. It is His Love through which I forgive and His Vision through which I see. I am in God and He is in me. I love God and He loves me. I belong to God. As I let go of everything that is not God I will remember that I am His Son.
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