I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me….
This is a guarantee…. It isn’t crucial that we understand everything about forgiveness, just that we practice it… Keeping in mind that it is the ‘ego that analyzes; where the Holy Spirit accepts’ puts us in right-minded alignment for forgiveness. The crucial piece is that we practice our willingness to have our perception changed … We are ‘doing it right’, if we leaning in the direction of being willing to see the situation or person or belief or circumstance differently. And this is enough to engage the Atonement principle, and release the mind to healing... The Holy Spirit handles the details…
This transformation procedure actually takes place within a dimension of reality where the needs for conflict and forgiveness aren’t viable. The change of heart, inherent in deciding we want forgiveness’s blessing on a situation or relationship, is the softening or opening that invites the Holy Spirit to visit the light of truth upon it.
Before we realize it, our guts have started shape-shifting and our smudged vision of the other/circumstance, clears and love’s clarity shows us another way of addressing the situation, entirely.
In fact, often we don’t even recognize that it is the healed and forgiven issue sponsoring our involvement in a given miracle.
FORGIVENESS MUST REST UPON ALL THINGS… that is the promise of the Atonement…. In reality, it has all already been accomplished… Yet, for the mind that still believes in the reality of the dream of separation, forgiveness is simply the means by which the Atonement is accomplished in the time/space mind dynamic… So that’s all handled through God’s plan for salvation…
We just need remember that all things are for-giving to all as one…
And doesn’t it just feel better to give up the burden of having to be right, or of having to know? Whew!
Please join me in today’s perfect, yummy prayer:
“I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. It is not real. And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. The key is in my hand, and I have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams. I stand before the gate of Heaven, wondering if I should enter in and be at home. Let me not wait again today. Let me forgive all things, and let creation be as You would have it be and as it is. Let me remember that I am Your Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing light of truth, as memory of You returns to me.”
I accept Atonement for myself and defer to God’s identity for me, in place of the one I made… both for myself and for you…
To attack is to accept temporary insanity in any given situation… And it always, with out fail, only hurts my state of peace; my sense of certainty, safety and awareness of love…
I am as God created me. And sin is obliterated in this acknowledgement. We use the term sinlessness only because we are speaking to a mind dulled by belief in personhood and sin and punishment and death… But it is really no-thing…
Sinlessness is not even an appropriate technology for the changeless reality in which we rest in God; where there is only God the father and his innocent Son, completing creation in perfect oneness…
Today’s prayer:
Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness so dear and deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your Holiness. How pure, how safe, how holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile, with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him.
I joyously join with everyone to right every circumstance and situation within belief through the miracle of our changeless, sinless reality as love….
When it becomes apparent that a miracle is necessary in a given situation … When all ego antics to maintain control have finally failed, it is not the agony of defeat that I reference in my experience bank, but rather, the relief of letting go of the heavy burden of self deception, leaving me at last in the present, in peace…
For me, when it finally became clear that I did not know… When I finally threw my hands in the air; in the great universal signal for defeat, I was totally open to receive the miracle that would at last breathe life back into my tired and worn-out sense of identity, with the truth instead …
In other words, one must virtually die to the world we made, if but for an instance, to receive the vision of Christ which allows us to see the inner oneness we all share. Persons are revealed as long-lost brothers and competition dissolves in the recognition of a unified purpose. By checking nothing at the door, and giving over my entire idea of ‘problems’ to the miracle, it allowed me a new perspective entirely. I came to realize that a miracle was not some kind of ‘outside- help-from-above’ but simply the righting of perception. The miracle works within the seeming problem or situation, illuminating another way of looking at it that eliminates all faults; wipes tears away and replaces defensiveness with gratitude. What’s more is that the core on which this healed perspective all takes place, is already in place, right there waiting for the mind that is ready for the miracle. It is merely invisible or inaccessible when the desire for the problem is taking precedence.
Only dream figures move and seem to change. It is within this dynamic that the miracle is needed. …
The ever-familiar film-clip of the tiny mad idea, known as life, supported by belief in, and fears of, death…has been answered… The Atonement principle rights the divisional perspective to see/experience beyond, where all remains as one, always, already…
There is a flow, like water; to this section of lessons… It is the steady, gentle awareness of our choice to no longer serve guilt but to allow for all the defenses and make-believe that held its value in place, to be dispersed into the tranquil rousing that forgiveness brings. What is apparent now, here, as we gaze with Christ’s vision is all the beauty which was always present, but which our faith in guilt concealed. It is here, we have the chance of recognizing the Son of God; to look and see the face of Christ.
The freedom from suffering is the change of mind from dreams of guilt to happy dreams. This is the choice takes the place of the formerly worshiped ‘idol’ of guilt and its dwindling reign in mind. ‘Choose once again’, the Course tells us again and again…
Today’s lesson says we can, today, choose forever to let go of suffering and allow the flow of love forgiveness brings…freely…
We decide one simple thing; we do not want whatever we believe an idol gives. For thus the Son of God declares that he is free of idols. And thus he is free…
I am, indeed, free of suffering today; for I am as God created me. This choice exposes the madness of following guilt’s chosen path as a way of life…. Appearances can but deceive the mind that wants to be deceived. There is no meeting place for the peace of God and guilt. Forgiveness allows for the dance of suffering to be seen for what it is: guilt is the one and only cause of pain, no matter what it seems to look like. And the peace forgiveness brings makes it so we are no longer enticed by guilt’s pretentious, hopeless allure.
Choose freedom instead of suffering and through this choice, see what was previously invisible (due to the desire not to see, per guilt’s wishes). The idea of salvation is viable at last. This one choice is the decision to expose the false; not so much running from the make believe toys in the idol dream, but rather deciding against their reality, which was only kept alive by deception. It is the decision to let the truth be true. I love what the Course says in the section in the text called Beyond All Idols where it states:
“Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream? It asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your will be done, and seed no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle whishes for the Will of God… No more than this is asked… salvation asks for nothing in reality. And even in illusions it but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear Such is the only rule for happy dreams”…
To “let all things be exactly as they are” is another way of stating the running theme of these later lessons in the Course… as a matter of fact, that is what the Course says… “No rules are idly set, and no demands are made of anyone or anything to twist and fit into the dream of fear. Instead, there is a wish to understand all things created as the really are. And it is recognized that all things must be first forgiven, and then understood…. The real world is the state of mind in which the only purpose of the world is seen to be forgiveness.”…
The peace of God flows naturally as all attachment to guilt are let go, now… Feel it! Right Now!
~I can be free of suffering today~
Ah, God’s plan for salvation rocks! There’s simply nowhere to turn that doesn’t lead back to the yummy presence of God’s Love; always, already, forever, present… now that’s a groovy present, yes?
Here, I sit, with today’s lesson. Allowing it to work its magic in my mind… I am feeling full and light…
Part of what keeps coming to my mind is chapter 30 in the text. Section entitled; Rules for Decision. OMG, I cannot describe what a precious source of perfect, specific, as well as general, guide this has been for me… It is so completely contrary to the very make-up of the ego-self to be clear on anything. The entire ego thought system, after all, was made for precisely the opposite. So, in other words, asking the self of this so-called life what it wants and what will make it happy is futile. And in actuality, it’s nothing… What a waste of perfectly good life force, yeah? Oh, sure the ego is a great ‘used-vehicle’ type salesperson; shape-shifting when necessary to play the role of motivational speaker and counselor… and maker–of-promises.
What I am learning to remember is that there is no unity in division, no clarity in confusion. Going to the source of unhappiness for the umpteenth time for ‘a new plan’ for happiness, is the very definition of insanity, is it not? … Doing the same thing over and over; expecting different results… sound familiar?
The Course bypasses the need to engage in this common, redundant thinking, and delivers its message directly to the part of the mind which is ready to receive. Even when we feel we don’t understand, what I have seen is that it delivers and waits till my forgiveness opens that part of my mind where the wisdom of its message patiently waits for my wholehearted welcome…. So many times, haven’t you, as I have, experienced that kind of moment that says, ‘Ah ha!! So that’s what the Course meant about that’? The Jesus/the Holy Spirit/the Course speaks directly to right-mind…
Now, I’d like to reference specifically the Rules for Decision section. For many years I fell under the category it refers to where it says, “…if you find resistance strong and dedication weak, you are not ready”. I hated for this to be true about me, and often I lied to myself that I was ready, but results always revealed the discrepancy… You simply can’t hide from what you have given value to… it shows up in your life, regardless, and the evidence is a plain as day.
Here’s the groovy thing though, I wanted to want it more than anything else… And in miracle-moments of non-resistance I found that I could certainly follow the next instruction, “… at least I can decide I do not like what I feel now”; andfrom there I began to be able let it go how it went; as well as the outcome And as things proceeded in the natural process, I sawthat a ‘little willingness’, goes along way… In fact, it is always just enough…
And here’s the thing, in spite of myself, or was it in-spirit of my-Self, truth has become my single goal… Regardless of what things look like externally, somehow that zero-point of love is always present at the center of my mind, now.
In revisiting the process laid out in Rules for Decision, as I have, oh so many times, I am profoundly moved by the miracle of having a formula to follow to trust, so I could let go of ‘needing to know… And you know what? Somewhere along the way, the kind of deep abiding peace and joy I glimpse in this practice, I was now coming to recognize as my natural state… I had been willing and ready and able to remember and apply its principles as part a natural part of my life of forgiveness, and just allow, not needing to understand or figure out….
I invite you to join in the yummy treat of reviewing this section, Rules for Decision along with today’s lesson. The goal, after all, belongs at the beginning… So, if we want to set the day right~ aligned in truth~ for the best possible application of today’s lesson: ‘I will receive whatever I request’, why not take advantage of this complimentary exercise?
The complete reversal of our thought system from fear to love is but a decision for the Guide that can show us the truth ouf what we are, through our brothers, events, etc.The lessons are, after all, designed for the un-perfect mind and we will inevitably attempt them. (Thank you, Jesus)… Today I join with you in accepting the Atonement through the means appointed for us to receive whatever we request… with all my love and faith~
FATHER, THIS IS YOUR DAY.
It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what you offer me, accepting only Thoughts you share with me.
