ACIM Lesson #247
“Without forgiveness I will still be blind.
Sin is the symbol of attack. Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer. For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ's vision comes to me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. Brother, come and let me look on you. Your loveliness reflects my own. Your sinlessness is mine. You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.”
[ACIM prayer for today]
“So would I look on everyone today. My brothers are Your Sons. Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well. Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self.”
“Without forgiveness I will still be blind.
Sin is the symbol of attack. Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer. For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ's vision comes to me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. Brother, come and let me look on you. Your loveliness reflects my own. Your sinlessness is mine. You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.”
[ACIM prayer for today]
“So would I look on everyone today. My brothers are Your Sons. Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well. Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self.”
[Marsha's Thoughts]
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! -- which separates us from the Love that is God. And since we are the image and likeness of God, there can be no separation other than in our belief. 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 -- and this letting go includes things which we think have been done to us and things we think we have done to others. So 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,”
Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Retrospection and Introspection (p. 67)
“Sin was, and is, the lying supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are both material and spiritual, and yet are separate from God,”
Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Retrospection and Introspection (p. 67)
