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Study of Manual for Teachers 4-25-12

Day 115
3 All concepts of your brothers and yourself; all fears of future states and all concerns about the past, stem from injustice. Here is the lens which, held before the body’s eyes, distorts perception and brings witness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the lens and holds it very dear. Selectively and arbitrarily is every concept of the world built up in just this way. “Sins” are perceived and justified by careful selectivity in which all thought of wholeness must be lost. Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one “sin” but seems forever true.
4 Salvation is God’s justice. It restores to your awareness the wholeness of the fragments you perceive as broken off and separate. And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. For separate fragments must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal. It remains forever and forever like its Creator, being one with Him. God’s Judgment is His justice. Onto this,-a Judgment wholly lacking in condemnation; an evaluation based entirely on love,-you have projected your injustice, giving God the lens of warped perception through which you look. Now it belongs to Him and not to you. You are afraid of Him, and do not see you hate and fear your Self as enemy.

I asked the Holy Spirit what He would have me know about this paragraph and He brought to my mind the thought of “Johnny.” This is a man I have separated from all others and have branded as bad and unworthy. I justify my judgment by recounting his many unforgivable faults as I perceive them.

I’ve decided to forgive this story. I’ve decided over and over to forgive this story, then I pick it up again, and when I pick it up I act as if he is the story and it is he that I cannot forgive. If he is guilty for his story then I must be guilty for mine and so I hate him for that, and can’t stand to think about him. The more I hate him the more justification I must find to explain my failure to forgive. He never fails to provide that justification through his actions because in my need for him to be wrong, I see him only through the filter of his sins, which is, of course, the filter of my sins.

The solution is so simple. There is one Son of God and we are that. We imagine that we are many and that each of the many lives out some form of a separation story. When we tire of that story we throw it off and return to our pristine state. Johnny is not Johnny and he has never done anything wrong. He only imagines a story that provides opportunity to awaken, as am I, as are we all. That is all that’s happening.

Since I am part of his story or he is part of my story, however I want to see it, his story becomes an opportunity for me to forgive and to see the truth of who he is and who I am. I am not guilty because I keep allowing myself to be pulled back into the story, but I am suffering because of my choice.

Judgment is a burden, a painful burden. The only way to sustain my decision to keep him guilty is to remain in the dream. While I am in the dream I am unaware of being in God. This is the same thing as choosing pain, suffering, and death. I am ready to open my eyes. Holy Spirit please help me to see. I know that I can because there is nothing my holiness cannot do. I call on my holiness.

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