"My brother, peace and joy I offer you,
That I may have God's peace and joy as mine."
Remember that all minds are joined. Even though consciously your "enemy" is not aware that you are offering forgiveness, on an unconscious level he knows.
In lesson 105, the concept of giving is discussed. It is explained that there is a big difference in giving and receiving when we are talking about Godly gifts as opposed to earthly gifts. Here in our earthly world, when we give something away it is gone to us. For example, you have two cupcakes and two friends. If you offer a cupcake to each of your two friends, there is no cupcake left for you.
In God's world, however, giving Godly gifts works differently. (God's gifts are higher concepts such as love, truth, beauty, happiness, peace.) The more you give, the more you have:
"God's peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us. And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we receive them. They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the giver loses as he gives the gifts, the taker is the richer by his loss. Such are not gifts, but bargains made with guilt. The truly given gift entails no loss. It is impossible that one can gain because another loses. This implies a limit and an insufficiency."You will find the evidence of how this works is in the doing of this exercise. If you take it seriously and go to a quiet place where you can still your mind for a few minutes by listening to your breath, you will find that your peace and joy truly does grow as you sincerely give it away to your trespassers.
Our math: 1-1=0 ... God's math 1-1= Infinity
This is one simple example of how forgiveness creates happiness in our lives. When we embark on a large-scale forgiveness life-style, forgiving everything we can in our present, past and in the world around us, we are giving away our love all around us in our world and all the time. What happens then? Why, all this love comes right back to us multiplied. Forgiveness is the key to happiness!
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”--Luke 6:38
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