Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world…
Forgiveness is the method available to me for me to ‘teach only love’, that I might to share it and re-member the ground of my being~ Love…. It restores to me the memory of truth … It is my formula for happiness...
Coming to understand what the course is talking about here with forgiveness, it seems to me, can only be learned by practice ~lots of it. It asks that we, for an instant, give up thinking we ‘know’; that we are ‘right’ about whatever spin we placed on the person or situation and allow ourselves to be shown what the situation is for in the service of love….
From this, all manner of diligence and discipline worthy of God's Son, unfold naturally as one gives up the ‘me’ agenda in lieu of the Holy Spirit’s… This practice eventually becomes habitual...
Happiness is the natural outcome… surrender + forgiveness = Happiness.
It's working.
Here’s how it went for me. At some point along the way, I took the only step left, to tade; the only one that was honest for me to take; the ‘one’ leap of faith~ the cosmic ‘TRUST-fall’…
I ‘leaned back’ and resting in trust, became willing to be shown… I began to experience that my little willingness was not only enough, but enough because it is the only thing I have to give honestly…
Trust shows that we are not alone, the answer is with us and within us and forgiveness demonstrates this by lighting the path in which to look past anything that is not in accord with everything… therefore restoring wholeness to mind…
I cannot contain my gratitude for this holy gift ~for in it I SEE CHRIST! Forgiveness is the one formula of the Atonement principle, which is an act of love, given us by our Creator. This gift, when offered with the Holy Spirit, allows the light of understanding to dawn.
Forgiveness is the way; removing the barriers to loves awareness, by allowing one to the see the belief in guilt, sin, and fear projected out and made into a “universe/ world/ family/ special-relationships, in other words, the so-called personal life”, for what it is. ~ FALSE~ and therefore, a call for Love… And that is all…That is all!
~Unsurprisingly, with no effort, one becomes propelled forward, back into love’s presence… looking right past the ‘dreamed/drummed up situation'… to the irresistible call of Love. Forgiveness teaches only love, for that is what we are; the meaning of the resurrection…alive in each of us…
To teach is to demonstrate. And when truth dawns light, enlightening the mind ~ everything that ever seemed to be, fades into the shadowy backdrop of the function of forgiveness…
Only through forgiveness; that’s ‘forgiveness-for-salvation’, as referred to it in the “Song of Prayer” supplement to the Course, do I demonstrate the Light of Christ. Here’s what it says:
“Forgiveness-for-salvation: it does not ask for proof of innocence, not pay of any kind. It does not argue, nor evaluate the errors that it wants to overlook. It does not offer gifts in treachery, nor promise freedom while it asks for death. Would God deceive you? He but asks for trust and willing ness to learn how to be free. He gives His Teacher to whoever asks, and seeks to understand the Will of God. His readiness to give lies far beyond your understanding and your simple grasp. Yet He has willed you learn the way to Him, and in His willing there is certainty.
You child of God, the gifts of God are yours, not by you plans but by His holy will. His Voice will teach you what forgiveness is, and how to give it as He will it be. Do not, then, seek to understand what is beyond you yet, but let it be a way to draw you up to where the eyes of Christ become the sight you choose. Give up all else, for there is nothing else. When someone calls for help in any form, He is the One to answer for you. All that you need do is to step back and not it interfere. Forgiveness-for-salvation is His task, and it is He Who will respond for you.”
Could any thing be more comforting? Peace is inevitable, if we just don’t interfere with God’s plan… It was my interference that got me into this, where forgiveness became necessary in the first place, wasn’t it? …The least I can do, and it turns out, the most as well, is NOT TO INTERFERE.
He has called and I have chosen to listen… “Behold the greatest help that God ordained to be with you until you reach to Him. Illusion’s end will come with this. Unlike the timeless nature of its sister, prayer, forgiveness has an end. For it becomes unneeded when the rising up is done. Yet now it has a purpose beyond which you cannot go, nor have you need to go. Accomplish this and you have been redeemed. Accomplish this and you have been transformed. Accomplish this and you will save the world’…
What a profound occurrence of wakefulness this is…. Thank you my brothers, for there is no ‘personal’ life… without you I would be lost. I cannot go without you, for you are part of me… Together we light the world through fulfilling our function of forgiveness… Happiness is our happy return…
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