July 12, 2013 - See Differently

"Great Wall of China"
photo by Aaron Springston

ACIM Workbook Lesson #193

“All things are lessons God would have me learn.”

What I am learning today is this: "Forgive, and you will see this differently." Today's lesson reinforces yesterday's plan to cast away the sword hanging over our heads. In other words, any grudges we are holding are keeping us a prisoner to them. We often hear people say they can forgive but they can't or won't forget. This forgiving spoken of in today's writings is total; forgetting what/whoever we think has wronged us. Happiness and Love will be the law of the land, and we won't need anyone to tell us what is right or wrong. Haven't we always known this?

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"The true Logos is demonstrably Christian Science, the natural law of harmony which overcomes discord, — not because this Science is supernatural or pre‐ternatural, nor because it is an infraction of divine law, but because it is the immutable law of God, good."

Science & Health Page 134:21-26

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).