I Give My Life to God
Posted by Andy on February 8th, 2010
I thought I would run my own show, be special, be me!
As separation was impossible, I fell into a dream in which I thought I controlled my life. I chose for the ego and made the world.
Now I see that I was just fooling myself with my own puppet show of fear and death. And every time I perceive separation, every time I judge, I feel guilty about what I have done.
I give my life back to God. I give up trying to be a false self, a person. I was mistaken about everything. I forgive my innocent, holy brothers whom I made into puppets. God sees me and tells me I am His Holy Sinlessness Itself. I am His Christ.
I give my mind completely back to God. I give up all ego preferences and opinions. I accept all things exactly as they are. I become still and ask for guidance. “I do not know. Decide for me.” I listen and follow.
My will is God’s Will, and God’s Will for me is perfect happiness! His Will is wholly unopposed. God’s Will is Love. God’s Will is Mind Awake Now.
LESSON 233
I give my life to God to guide today.
Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me Your Own. I give You all my acts as well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today I come to You. I will step back and merely follow You. Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your perfect gift to me.
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Credo
Ten Thoughts
Posted by Andy on January 29th, 2010
1. I want the peace of God.
2. I perceive a world of egoic projections.
3. They are all false and unreal.
4. I am not a body; I am still as God created me.
5. I do not know my own best interests.
6. I must learn from a Teacher other than myself.
7. “This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge, for I would follow You, certain that your direction brings me peace. “
8. I forgive all my brothers completely; our minds are joined.
9. I perceive all things as kindly and as good.
10. I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
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Forgiveness in the Course
Organized
Posted by Andy on January 28th, 2010
We must learn to forgive all evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” Preface
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal? An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view. W-pII.1
Forgiveness is Non-judgmental
Miracle-minded forgiveness has no element of judgment at all. The statement "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" in no way evaluates what they do. T-2.V.A.16
Correction is not your function. It belongs to One Who knows of fairness, not of guilt. If you assume correction's role, you lose the function of forgiveness. No one can forgive until he learns correction is but to forgive, and never to accuse. T-27.II.10
Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. W-352
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.W-pII.1.4
What Forgiveness is
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God. W-pII.1
Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. T-3.V.9 Forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ's vision comes to me. W-247
Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss. 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. W-249
Forgiveness is the answer to attack of any kind. So is attack deprived of its effects, and hate is answered in the name of love. T-26.VII.17 The miracle forgives; the ego damns. C-2
The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other way. God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last. W-256
Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness is acquired. It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin. As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin. W-121.6
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God. W-pII.1.1
To forgive is to overlook. T-9.IV.1 Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. T-9.IV.5
To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. For the shadow figures you would make immortal are "enemies" of reality. Be willing to forgive the Son of God for what he did not do. T-17.III.1
Forgiveness is the end of specialness. Only illusions can be forgiven, and then they disappear. Forgiveness is release from all illusions, and that is why it is impossible but partly to forgive. T-24.III.1
The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself. T-25.IX.9
Forgiveness is this world's equivalent of Heaven's justice. No one forgives unless he has believed in sin, and still believes that he has much to be forgiven. Forgiveness thus becomes the means by which he learns he has done nothing to forgive. T-26.IV.1
Forgiveness is the great release from time. It is the key to learning that the past is over. T-26.V.6
Forgiveness lets the Holy Spirit make exchange of pictures possible, until the time when aids are meaningless and learning done. T-27.III.5
Forgiveness is for all. T-25.VI.5 It is recognized that all things must be first forgiven, and then understood. T-30.V.1
Pardon is always justified. It has a sure foundation. You do not forgive the unforgivable, nor overlook a real attack that calls for punishment. Salvation does not lie in being asked to make unnatural responses which are inappropriate to what is real. Instead, it merely asks that you respond appropriately to what is not real by not perceiving what has not occurred. You are merely asked to see forgiveness as the natural reaction to distress that rests on error, and thus calls for help. Forgiveness is the only sane response. It keeps your rights from being sacrificed. T-30.VI.2
Forgiveness recognized as merited will heal. It gives the miracle its strength to overlook illusions. This is how you learn that you must be forgiven too. There can be no appearance that can not be overlooked. For if there were, it would be necessary first there be some sin that stands beyond forgiveness. T-30.VI.5
Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself. God’s Love is the basis of forgiveness. Fear condemns and love forgives. Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. It is the means by which illusions disappear. It is your forgiveness that will bring the world of darkness to the light. W-46
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. It is your forgiveness that lets you recognize the light in which you see. Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. Through your forgiveness does the truth about yourself return to your memory. Therefore, in your forgiveness lies your salvation.W-62.1
A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love's awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings. A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received as one. And thus it illustrates the law of truth the world does not obey, because it fails entirely to understand its ways. A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. Now is perception open to the truth. Now is forgiveness seen as justified. Forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. W-pII.13
Forgiveness is an illusion, but because of its purpose, which is the Holy Spirit's, 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. God knows what His Son needs before he asks. He is not at all concerned with form, but having given the content it is His Will that it be understood. And that suffices. The form adapts itself to need; the content is unchanging, as eternal as its Creator. C-3
The face of Christ has to be seen before the memory of God can return. The face of Christ is the great symbol of forgiveness. Whoever looks on this no longer sees the world. It is the bridge to Heaven. C-3
Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here. Conflict must be resolved. It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears. W-333
My Brother
Brother, you need forgiveness of your brother, for you will share in madness or in Heaven together. T-19.IV.D.12
Forgive your brother all appearances, that are but ancient lessons you have taught yourself about the sinfulness in you. T-31.II.9 You must forgive God's Son entirely. Or you will keep an image of yourself that is not whole, and will remain afraid to look within and find escape from every idol there. Salvation rests on faith there cannot be some forms of guilt that you cannot forgive. T-30.VI.7
The fear of God is the sure result of seeing pardon as unmerited. No one who sees himself as guilty can avoid the fear of God. But he is saved from this dilemma if he can forgive. The mind must think of its Creator as it looks upon itself. If you can see your brother merits pardon, you have learned forgiveness is your right as much as his. Nor will you think that God intends for you a fearful judgment that your brother does not merit. For it is the truth that you can merit neither more nor less than he. T-30.VI.4
You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can let yourself be wakened. You can overlook your brother's dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams. And as you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. T-29.III.3
How willing are you to forgive your brother? How much do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain? These questions are the same, in different form. Forgiveness is your peace, for herein lies the end of separation and the dream of danger and destruction, sin and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss. This is the "sacrifice" salvation asks, and gladly offers peace instead of this. T-29.VI.1
You share no evil dreams if you forgive the dreamer, and perceive that he is not the dream he made. And so he cannot be a part of yours, from which you both are free. Forgiveness separates the dreamer from the evil dream, and thus releases him. T-28.V.3
Forgiveness takes away what stands between your brother and yourself. It is the wish that you be joined with him, and not apart. T-26.VII.9
We are the bringers of salvation. We accept our part as saviors of the world, which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed. And this, our gift, is therefore given us. We look on everyone as brother, and perceive all things as kindly and as good. W-pII.14
Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. It has no hope, but you become its hope. And as its hope, do you become your own. The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. And as you teach salvation, you will learn. Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you. W-121
Would you not offer him forgiveness, when only he can offer it to you? Whom you forgive is free, and what you give you share. Forgive the sins your brother thinks he has committed, and all the guilt you think you see in him. T-19.IV.D.15
Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete. It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him. We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. W.fl.in
Benefits
Forgiveness offers everything you want. Today all things you want are given you. Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to meet a world of shifting change and bleak appearances. Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of truth behind appearances. Be tempted not to let your gifts slip by and drift into forgetfulness, but hold them firmly in your mind by your attempts to think of them at least a minute as each quarter of an hour passes by. Remind yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder, which has power to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day: Forgiveness offers everything I want. Today I have accepted this as true. Today I have received the gifts of God. W-122 I will forgive, and this will disappear. W-193
Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you. Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you? It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind. It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness. Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself. Your goal is to find out who you are, having denied your Identity by attacking creation and its Creator. Now you are learning how to remember the truth. For this attack must be replaced by forgiveness, so that thoughts of life may replace thoughts of death. W-62
What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want 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?
All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles on your eyes as you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your forehead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack. And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you, and more.
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. What would you want forgiveness cannot give? What gifts but these are worthy to be sought? What fancied value, trivial effect or transient promise, never to be kept, can hold more hope than what forgiveness brings?
Why would you seek an answer other than 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. Here is the answer! Seek for it no more. You will not find another one instead.
Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will receive. 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. 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.
Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace. Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of hell. 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. What you will remember then can never be described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to you.
Remembering the gifts forgiveness gives, we undertake our practicing today with hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be ours. Earnestly and gladly will we seek for it today, aware we hold the key within our hands, accepting Heaven's answer to the hell we made, but where we would remain no more.
Morning and evening do we gladly give a quarter of an hour to the search in which the end of hell is guaranteed. Begin in hopefulness, for we have reached the turning point at which the road becomes far easier. And now the way is short that yet we travel. We are close indeed to the appointed ending of the dream. W-333
Forgiveness in Meditation
Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the world. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son. W-333
The only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything. T-3.V.6
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. Before the light you will receive today the world will fade until it disappears, and you will see another world arise you have no words to picture. Now we walk directly into light, and we receive the gifts that have been held in store for us since time began, kept waiting for today. W-122
Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us. W-257
Forgiveness is the only gift I give. Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. And everything I give I give myself. This is salvation's simple formula. W-297
Forgiveness shows us that God's Will is One, and that we share it. Let us look upon theholy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God. Amen. W-331
Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free. The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. Truth never makes attack. It merely is. And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance. W-332
Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined. Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception's ending. Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach. For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all. Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth. Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without. For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling place of God Himself. W-336
In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin. W-336
I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me. 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. 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. W-342
What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. The Son of God incorporates all things within himself as You created him. Your memory depends on his forgiveness. What he is, is unaffected by his thoughts. But what he looks upon is their direct result. Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. Only Your memory will set me free. And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness. W-350
Forgiveness, truth's reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. W-357
Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. W-359
Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. Forgiveness looks past bodies. A world forgiven cannot last. It was the home of bodies. But forgiveness looks past bodies. This is its holiness; this is how it heals. The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin possible. From sin comes guilt as surely as forgiveness takes all guilt away. And once all guilt is gone what more remains to keep a separated world in place? For place has gone as well, along with time. Only the body makes the world seem real. This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear. For there the altar to the Son is set, and there his Father is remembered. Here are all illusions brought to truth and laid upon the altar. Seen within your mind, guilt and forgiveness for an instant lie together, side by side, upon one altar. There at last are sickness and its single remedy joined in one healing brightness. God has come to claim His Own. Forgiveness is complete. C-4
Happy Dream of the Real World
Forgiving dreams are means to step aside from dreaming of a world outside yourself. And leading finally beyond all dreams, unto the peace of everlasting life. T-29.V.8
Forgiving dreams remind you that you live in safety and have not attacked yourself. 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. T-29.IX.10
The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. T-17.II.5-6
Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see. Each flower shines in light, and every bird sings of the joy of Heaven. There is no sadness and there is no parting here, for everything is totally forgiven. And what has been forgiven must join, for nothing stands between to keep them separate and apart. T-26.IV.2
Now is the goal achieved. Forgiveness is the final goal of the curriculum. M-4.X.2
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Change your Mind about the World
A helpful clarification
Posted by Andy on January 26th, 2010
David Hoffmeister recently communicated with a friend who was trying to “do good things” in the world and was confused when the Course said, “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.” T-21.in.1
Here is David’s reply paraphrased:
You and I believe we are physical bodies. Otherwise we would not be communicating in bodies as we are. Our individual perception makes the physical world we see our reality. The Course is built around helping us let go of our accepted reality in physical form. So we stop trying to improve or change the world in a physical context. We seek instead to change it in a way that is beyond the physical—the metaphysical, or spiritual.
In that context we identify with being a Thought of God and we must learn to think only God Thoughts. We make our choices based on what God would “think.” God is Love, and forgiving is the closest we come to expressing that love in the world. So we use forgiveness to change the world.
Usually we perceive an act and, in about a quarter of a second, judge it. To forgive (fore-give) is to give acceptance before we even perceive the act. We go right to the extension of God's Thoughts in the Present, innocence and loving acceptance. In this way we have bypassed the limitations of time. With practice, we come to see that time was only used to hold a brother to the past by projecting on him a future based on the past. Without time and projection, without the need to judge, forgiveness is no longer needed, and we have "changed our mind about the world."
When Jesus was on the cross, one might have expected him to say, "Forgive them Father for doing the worst possible thing on earth; killing your only son!" To the body’s eyes, the act may have appeared a sin. But Jesus, a Thought of God, said, "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." This phrase makes sense when the metaphysics of forgiveness is understood. Jesus knew the reality of life to be spiritual, not physical. So he did not judge the act. Rather he asked they be forgiven for not knowing what they were doing. Their physical act was meaningless in the spiritual context, a reality of which they were ignorant. Jesus knew what is always true, that we are forgiven by God in all things, all the time. The miracle of forgiveness is a thought based on God's Thought of Innocence in the Present Moment.
When we know we are forgiven by God in all things, all the time, how can we be capable of seeing a world of unforgiven acts and unforgiven people? We can't! We see a forgiven world, a world changed by our state of mind. This leads us to see that the world is changed, not by our actions or by meeting in bodies, but by this Thought, which only leads to the Good in all situations being extended by the Creator of Good.
The question then becomes, "Why would we need to change anything when it's enveloped in Love, sustained by Love and extended by Love?"
I hope that clarifies one of the most quoted phrases in A Course in Miracles. The workbook will be an immense help on your journey when and if you decide to check it out. I'm grateful for the opportunity to talk with you on this question.
~Showers of Love,
David
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Relationship Agreement
Sample
Posted by Andy on January 26th, 2010
Our Relationship Agreement
We are each complete within ourselves.
Our thoughts make our reality.
We each want a loving relationship and
Seek to be in, and stay in, our right mind.
| Wrong Mind | Right Mind |
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Believes we are different |
Believes we are the same |
Holy Relationship - Means to Oneness
Awakening Mind - Relationships
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