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ACIM Workbook Lesson #336
"Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined."
"Forgiveness sweeps away distortion, and opens the hidden altar to the truth." Even looking at this sentence through the limited eyes of our mortal mind, it seems so beautifully true! I was just chatting with a friend who tells me that her neighbor is convinced there is a mountain lion in their country neighborhood. He's going through all sorts of interesting practices in an attempt to "insure their safety". I live in town and my next door neighbor has strobe lights going all night long off of his back porch in an attempt to deter turkey vultures from bedding down for the night in the trees surrounding his house. Both of these people are afraid for reasons only they know. I can join them, either by fearing along with them or thinking about how silly I believe their actions to be. Either way would exacerbate their fears. So knowing that our minds are joined by the virtue of our parent Mind, I choose forgiveness and allow love to replace any feelings of ridicule which may tempt me. Now that I've said it, let's see if I can do it!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"The nearer a false belief approaches truth without passing the boundary where, having been destroyed by divine Love, it ceases to be even an illusion, the riper it becomes for destruction. The more material the belief, the more obvious its error, until divine Spirit, supreme in its domain, dominates all matter, and man is found in the likeness of Spirit, his original being."
Science & Health Page 97:14-20
