September 4, 2012 - Forgive and See

"Aaron in Zion National Park"
photo by Heather Magnan

ACIM Lesson #247

“Without forgiveness I will still be blind."

The sight which comes with forgiveness is our topic today. And we are told that sin is the symbol of attack. The topic of sin and forgiveness is a tough one. I feel this is because they are not a part of our real Being, and so we recoil at the words.  And that’s what this lesson today is about: the nothingness of sin and the meaning of forgiveness. I think of sin as being anything

-- anything at all  -- which separates us from the Love which is God. And since we are the image and likeness of God, there can be no separation other than in our belief. This thing we call forgiveness isn't some sort of divine pardon, but a yielding within ourselves to the purity of our thought, without the impediments of holding on to memories of wrongdoing, resentment, and pains of all sorts.  This yielding includes the release of things which we think have been done to us, and things we think we have done to others. So let's choose again, rest in Love, and go and sin no more!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“Sin was, and is, the lying supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are both material and spiritual, and yet are separate from God,”

Retrospection and Introspection (p. 67).