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ACIM Workbook Lesson #247
“Without forgiveness I will still be blind."
The sight which comes through forgiveness is our topic today. We are also told that sin is the symbol of attack. The topics of sin and forgiveness can make us cringe! 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 is about today: 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. Since we are the image and likeness of God, there can be no separation other than in our belief. And this thing we call forgiveness isn't some sort of divine pardon, but a yielding within ourselves to purity of 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).
