Wednesday Workbook: Intro part 2 and What is Forgiveness?

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          Now we move beyond words to direct experience with God. Words are now guides that we don’t depend on.  The lessons are introductions in which we leave the world and enter peace. Now we reach the goal of the Course and find the end that the practicing was geared towards. So the formal exercise is just a jumping off point here. 

           We wait in expectation of God, our Father. He takes the last step and he keeps his promises. We’ve come far along the road and now we wait for Him. Use prayer to wait for God. We spend time in the morning and night, as long as it makes you happy and makes hourly remembrances. In addition to this we call upon God in the interim if we have need for Him and forget our goal.

          Now we use the central thought of the day to introduce times of rest and calm. We say simple words of welcome and expect God to reveal himself as He has promised. He answers the calls of all of his kids. So we come with his word on our minds and hearts and wait for him to take the last step. 

          He did not leave us in our craziness. He needs our invitation in. Remember this will make us happy. We say words of welcome and we wait. We wait in silence unafraid of God’s coming. We have found the way of finding the guide that He sent. God did not leave us here hanging out to dry. 

          When the Father and the son have one will we can’t fail, ancient promises are kept. We can fail in nothing. We go on with certainty and confidence. We found the way He chose for us and we chose to follow it. His choice, your choice department. 

          He has called to you with love unending since time began (i.e. the separation). Now the need for practicing is almost done. We need only call on God and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, feel his love, instead of judging be still at let all things be healed. We will accept God’s plan in the end and we receive it the way that it started. 

          Practice: special theme of relevance followed by wordless deep experience. Review the theme each day until there is a new one. Read it slowly, marinate on it. Then you go into your holy and blessed instant.

Special Theme #1: What is Forgiveness?

          Miraculous Forgiveness: What you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. We do not pardon sins and make them real. Only love is real. In this view, your sins are forgiven. What takes the place of this falsehood is the will of God. United will brings peace. An unforgiving mind has made a judgement which is not true. The mind is closed and won’t be released.

         The thought: judgement proceeds projection. Projection tightens the chains that bind you, then distortions become more veiled. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim it has chosen for it’s goal? He who would not forgive must judge. 

“Forgiveness is still and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely looks and waits, and judges not.” There is a reason that this quotes is on the wall in the hang out space of the MC. Forgiveness is the key to passing ACIM.