Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Lesson 122:

Forgiveness offers everything I want…

What is it we want? That’s the $24 dollar question driving this world of pretend meaning, yes?

Behind and within the compulsive need for ‘more’, we’ve really only wanted one thing: imperturbable joy and peace. Is this not accurate? Is it so much to ask? Is it a worthiness issue that we feel we have to settle for the trappings? Haven’t we felt we had a right to peace, a right to be happy, someplace deep inside where no one can argue the point? As we look inside with the light forgiveness brings, we find this to be so.

So, it turns out that what we have been searching for remains undisturbed where God placed it; the safest place in life, within our Mind~ the One Mind of God’s Son…

If you’ve felt you just couldn’t put your finger on precisely what it is, If you’ve been looking for a definition to really flesh out the essence we’re talking about, here we have it, in this lesson… “Peace… happiness… a quiet mind… a certainty of purpose… a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world… care and safety… the warmth of sure protection always… a quietness that cannot be disturbed… a gentleness that never can be hurt… a deep, abiding comfort… and a rest so perfect it can never be upset”…

We have as well the mechanism for attaining it: Forgive and be forgiven… As you give you will receive… This lesson details out so beautifully, the perfect expression of the healed perspective. I love reviewing it and basking in the essence of reality it points to… “There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God… Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity… the answer that will answer everything… Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, halfhearted willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust… All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth… Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world… It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind… Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong… Forgiveness is the means by which our eyes today, look upon a happy world of safety and of peace... In quietness it rises up to greet your open eyes, and fill your heart with deep tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise in your awareness”…

Forgiveness is the key to happiness and the door is open, Now…

Today could be the day, you know, this moment, Now… We could let it happen for us…All of us …

“Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold out the sure rewards of questions answered and what your acceptance of the answer brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you”… You can feel that, yes? Isn’t that something… Can this be the day?

Just like that, within the twinkling of an eye, agree no longer with this the game of make-believe. It never delivered on its promises of happiness and safety and certainty and imperturbability and peace… See past all the pretenses of the past that form-all- ize this world of time and space and simply allow NOW to reveal a new perception: the One perspective that unites us in truth… Simply forgive and it is done… What has never happened cannot be as hard to forgive as we make it out to be. Fact!

What I realized is that what makes something ‘difficult’ to forgive, is the attachment I have had to being the author of myself. It is confusion about who I am. Which then sets up hierarchies and orders of reality with values and judgments to be assigned. It’s a big responsibility from that perspective, eh? Daunting really. Only illusion can exhaust, Spirit flows life. We are Spirit. Only spirit enlivens and inspires all life.

And as always, we but only have to look within whatever form the upset seems to take to find that belief in upset resides there… We’re the ones that decide, after all, what we believe, aren’t we? Upsets are limitations placed always within the framework of bodies and body-identified psyches. We are not a body. We are free. For We are as God created us…

I yield in gratitude to forgiveness. It has given me everything I want as, steadily as m willingness to give and receive… This is the instrument given me to do my part and experience the boundless joy of unity, with its permanent, perfect, immediate gifts from God, received by me for merely offering forgiveness and innocence to all.

The love and appreciation I feel is beyond measure and impossible to convey. I can only hope to live as the demonstration of this gratitude and bounty… It’s the simplest thing in the world, and gets easier all the time… The reward is it feels so good and we feel it immediately.

Plus, forgiveness is our path to the return of full memory who we are and Who our Father is. It is literally the lifting of the veil of body images to reveal the Christ, shining the reflection of Self.

Its sort of like when you close your eyes and imagine what indefinable beauty would look like and nothing can really come to you but light, any attempt to put a point of reference to it would seem irreverent… Then you open your eyes, and what you look upon is now defined by that light of beauty, now indelibly within your mind and vision. We are Christ… let’s forgive everything else… and see perfectly God’s plan is in effect and healing our mind as one…

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