Forgiveness

Forgiveness is “for giving ourselves peace of mind and healthy bodies”

Forgiveness, according to the dictionary, is to stop feeling anger and resentment. The word for hell in the Aramaic language, that Jesus spoke, is the same as the word for anger. Need there be a greater hell than anger and resentment? This video might help…

Resentment, according to some scientists, physicians and metaphysicians, is at the root of cancer. How very practical to let go of anger and resentment!

According to A Course In Miracles,

  1. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. (Lesson 121)
  2. Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction. (Teacher’s Manual)

Forgiveness, then, is an illusion, but because of its purpose, which is the Holy Spirit’s, it has one difference. Unlike all other illusions it leads away from error and not towards it.

Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction; a way in which the unknowing can bridge the gap between their perception and the Truth. They cannot go directly from perception to Knowledge because they do not think it is their will to do so. This makes God appear to be an enemy instead of what He really is. And it is just this insane perception that makes them unwilling merely to rise up and to return to Him in peace.

And so they need an illusion of help because they are helpless; a Thought of peace because they are in conflict.

Forgiveness is one form of releasing fear (anger and resentment) so that we can then return to the awareness of Love’s presence.

Workbook Lessons

Lesson 249 – Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss

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Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

 

Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed them, held them in a vice of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. Now would we rest again in You, as You created us.

 

Workbook Lessons

Lesson 248 – Whatever suffers is not part of me

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I have disowned the truth. Now let me be as faithful in disowning falsity. Whatever suffers is not part of me. What grieves is not myself. What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself. Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God. Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.

 

Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your Son again as well. Father, I am as You created me. Now is Your Love remembered, and my own. Now do I understand that they are one.

 

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