The light has come…
I have forgiven the world…
Practicing forgiveness is my privilege to take my part in the Atonement ~ It is my pledge to forget everything I thought I knew and merely wait to have it shown to me…It is my will joined with God’s through the Holy Spirit to see. To see the truth of what I am and you are… the truth that was denied in that unholy instant … we want to see it~ because it is the truth”… Truth is seen only in the light. And light dispels darkness, naturally, dispelling the image-making of the shadow past which lay in darkness, the home of the sin, guilt and fear, could hide.
Right perception has been restored because forgiveness is the gift of discernment, showing unequivocally the false from the true… The light has come… The light has shined away the fog of nothingness that obscured the truth… It is not that “knowledge” as the course is talking about, has been restored (this is God’s domain). It’s just that, the ‘need to know’ has gone. Being has replaced need. Waiting is the bliss of the eternal present. There is no place to go and nowhere to get to…
The Course tells us that “Knowledge’ is not the motivation for learning the course. Peace is…” in other words, the Course’s goal is not the state of Heaven, which is the abode of knowledge. The goal is for me to live in this world, forgiving my–self, by accepting the Atonement for myself, taking my place in God’s plan for salvation of the world, for-giving it into the ‘real world’. This is the circle of Atonement ~seeing only Love everywhere ~ forgiving everyone, everything and every circumstance and situation into the pure light of unified purpose~
The light has come; and with it, and awareness that it has been here all along. In this presence, in forgiveness’s belly, I am learning to see only from a mind transformed by forgiveness, looking out on the same… The forgiven world in which I see; which is a remarkable translation into an experience of incredible peace… yet, more natural somehow than the judgment we used to use to organize our lives… This transformation is the attainment of the ‘real world’… the light has come…
The light has come…I have forgiven the world… and I am now metaphorically retracing my steps, so to speak, remembering how I did it... There is a passage form the Course, in chapter 20, which feels like a metaphorical description of this journey. (T-20.VIII.11). You will enjoy reading it in addition to your practice today…
The light has come. I have forgiven the world, and in its wake is only peace. And I guess I dream of a journey back or a remembering or return ~I don’t know anything about time but I trust the Holy Spirit in the service of miracles is using it to awaken every aspect of the Sonship. I have ‘accepted the dream the Holy Spirit gave instead of mine’ …and rest in His gentle dream…”the dream of guilt is fading from sight…and although my eyes are closed, a smile has come to lighten up my sleeping face. The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams” … (T-27.VII.14:8)
I am living where judgments dissolve into forgiveness...This is the boarderland.
I see what the Course means when it talks about the ‘letting go of judgment being the obvious prerequisite for hearing the voice for God’, … tremendous release and deep peace come from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment’…
“In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. You can reflect Heaven here. Yet no reflections of the images of other gods must dim the mirror that would hold God’s reflection in it”…(T-14.IX. 5: 1-3) This is enough, once a tall order~ now, not only a possibility but a practice in action…and ya know why, cause the Holy Spirit does it… I am reminded of a couple of passages in chapter 29, and these will be the last quotes I’ll reference and share today, matter of fact, it’s a perfect to way to sign off … please join me in the light that has come and the world we have forgiven…
“Forgiving dreams remind you that you live in safety and have not attacked yourself. So do your childish terrors melt away, and dreams become a sign that you have made a new beginning, not another try to worship idols and to keep attack. Forgiving dreams are kind to everyone who figures in the dream. And so they bring the dreamer full release from dreams of fear. He does not fear his judgment for he has judged no one, nor has sought to be released through judgment from what judgment must impose. And all the while he is remembering what he forgot, when judgment seemed to be the way to save him from its penalty…How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time. (T-29.IX.10, VI.6).
~In peaceful, joyous appreciation ~the light has come ~
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