Journal for Day 66
LESSON 62
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
I have established in my own mind that I am the light of the world. This is not in question. I am dedicated to removing anything that dulls that light. And the way I do this is through forgiveness. There are several things that help me forgive, the first of which is understanding that forgiveness is undoing. When I forgive someone, I am not forgiving him or her for something they did, but for something they did not do. I forgive them the illusion of wrongdoing.
Another thing that helps me greatly, is to realize that I am the scriptwriter of this story of Myron and that includes everyone in it and ever situation that occurs in it. And, I am the interpreter of all things in this story. So how is it that anyone can be guilty of anything that I chose to experience?
“2 Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself.”
This body, this personality, this ego self that I sometimes still confuse as being myself is as much of an illusion as is the world around it. It is the same illusion taking a different form. This is why forgiveness is a gift to myself. It doesn’t really matter what I seem to be forgiving. I can forgive someone for attacking me with his or her words or I can forgive some pedophile I read about in the paper.
I can forgive my father for being an alcoholic, and I can forgive the policeman for giving me a ticket and the person shopping while sick and coughing all over me, and I can forgive myself for past behaviors. It’s all the same. I am actually forgiving an idea of separation, the image this idea takes is irrelevant. In other words, I am forgiving, thus, undoing the ego. So as I forgive you, I am forgiven. As I undo the illusion of you, the illusion of me is undone.
“For this attack must be replaced by forgiveness, so that thoughts of life may replace thoughts of death.”
The idea that my life is actually life is ridiculous. That is why I usually call it my story. It is a fantasy that was written to give me the best chance of undoing the belief in it and the desire for it. Since it is not actually life, we can call it thoughts of death. My purpose while I am here is to recognize the specific thoughts of death that are in my mind and replace them with thoughts of life, thoughts that bring joy and peace. If this fantasy I am living is a story of death, then the story I make with my true thoughts will allow me to get very close to reality, to Life.
*“3 Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you.”
This is pretty clear. Every time I attack myself or anyone or anything, I reinforce my sense of weakness. Every time I forgive, I restore the strength of God to my awareness. As Jesus says, “It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind. It will take away all fear and guilt and pain.” I am as God created me and He created as an extension of Himself. In my creation God gave all of Himself. Attack thoughts are the reason that this is not apparent to me. The failure to forgive is what keeps me from remembering what I am.
Regina’s Tips for this lesson.
This is from her tips: If you notice your thinking patterns, and then sit down and contemplate what you see with inner wisdom, what type of thinking is helpful for you to focus on first? What type of thinking causes you the most unhappiness now? If you pick one genre of thought that causes unhappiness in you and begin by focusing forgiveness on that type of thought, you can make progress fairly quickly (in weeks or months) with one type of thinking. From that, you will increase forgiveness skills and you will see genuine results. You will have the actual experience of more freedom. This encouragement will increase both your willingness and confidence.
As you contemplate today’s workbook lesson, why not ask within, “Where shall I begin the process of forgiveness?” See if some genuine insight comes. If it does, begin this journey by practicing forgiveness with those thoughts with vigilance.
My thoughts
I don’t have any problem with forgiving others. When I notice an attack thought against another person or even against a situation, I am quick to let that go. I don’t see any value in holding onto it so I don’t hold onto it. The pattern that I still work on is guilt directed toward myself and even that is on the way out.
I do still work on fear thoughts. So I guess that is where I am going to focus my practice of forgiveness.
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