Forgiveness is for YOU!

"Each time you forgive, you take yourself deeper into the purity of your own consciousness."  ---The Way of Mastery p. 25

Forgiveness is for YOU!  

It's not something you do because you ought to, or you think you should.  You don't forgive because way back when your Sunday School teacher told you to.

It's not something you do for others (although forgiveness is very healing for everyone else).  You don't do it because long ago your mother told you to forgive your sister when the two of you argued.

It's not something you do to heal the world, although it does contribute to the healing of the world.

It is simply for YOU.  It is through forgiveness that you discover your own magnificence.  You discover that you are loving and good inside at your core.  You are connected to the divine and that purity and innocence flows in your veins.  It is only as you forgive the world around you, however, that the awareness of your own beautiful divine nature begins finally to dawn on you.

When your forgiveness work begins to congeal into a new way of seeing the world, you subconsciously start the process of actually forgiving yourself.  You learn that if purity is at the heart of everyone you've forgiven, then it is at your own heart, too.  You begin to see yourself differently.  You recognize your inherent goodness and wisdom.  It is there, and actually has always been there.  But it is only as you practice forgiveness that you are able to recognize its presence.

And as you forgive more and more in your everyday world, your life begins to change.  It becomes easier, Lighter.  Good things flow to you.  Life's lessons become gentler.

You begin to see that you can trust life to take care of you and that allows you to accept more peace.  You understand inherently that you are safe.  That everything that is important in this life begins with forgiveness and love.  That as you forgive and love, you are tapping into the essence of your purpose.

And this makes you want to go further in your forgiveness.  So you probe into your past wounds and release and forgive.  You see the distorted, false, difficult world around you and you accept, accept and accept even more.  You release the old false beliefs that blocked you from seeing the truth in your heart.

More peace flows in.  Life lightens even more.  And one day you know that you have reached the beginning of living what A Course in Miracles calls "the happy dream".   It's not all always perfect, but it mostly is, and you know in your core that as you continue to live in forgiveness, it will become more and more so.

You've found happiness.

All this is so much bigger than holding onto that miserable pain-inducing tight-fisted life-long grudge against that most annoying someone in your life.  This is huge.  This is everything.  Do you see that?  Let it go.  Let it go.  LET IT GO.  Choose to live a happy life.  Choose to know your real truth.  Choose to be so much more than the smallness you are living now.  Expand into love.  Forgive and be happy.

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There's a Script for Our Lives

I loved Jennifer Hadley's posting this morning.  In fact, I loved it so much I sent the link out to all the members of my Way of Mastery class.  Then I thought I'd share it with you, too.  To see it on her web-site, click here.  I have also included the entire posting below.

It's so great to be waking up!

"I’m continuing in this series I started about my experience of waking up. One of the most pivotal points for me was realizing that there was, as A Course in Miracles calls it, a script. There’s a script or plan for each of our lives. It’s very complex and every part of it is highly intentional. We wrote it. There’s not one choice in our life experience that isn’t written by our own Higher Holy Spirit Self.

The more loving I became, the more I practiced forgiveness and non judgment the more clearly I could see that there was not one thing in my life that was random. I began to have a level of insight, flashes and bursts of clarity about what was most important and how life worked. The more loving, patient and generous I became, the more I began to have a 4th dimensional awareness.

The more I practiced forgiveness, the more clearly I could feel, see, hear and know the truth beyond the illusion, the more I began to understand it, the less confusing life was for me.

I began to understand how life works from a spiritual perspective, rather than a worldly perspective. I began to see that what the world taught was false. Only Love is true. Love is all there is.

ALL of our life lessons about Love because Love is ALL there is.

When we make unloving choices we are, essentially refusing to accept the lessons of Love that we’ve worked so hard to present to ourselves. Each time we choose to be unloving, we’re rejecting ALL of our experiences of the past that have taught us to be loving, kind and generous. And this is the cause of our suffering. If we didn’t suffer when we make choices that are loving we are harvesting EVEN MORE learning from everything that we’ve learned so far.

My life began to be a series of challenging opportunities to choose Love. They were INTENSELY challenging for me. I became more and more committed to finding the Love in my heart and choosing from that Love. It was not easy. I began to experience miraculous healing. The level of healing that I’d always dreamed of became mine. I began to feel truly free. I began to see my family and friends changing too. I began to feel and see my finances healing. Everything became much easier.

It was ALL the result of deepening my spiritual practice. EVERYTHING I have is the result of that.

I finally began to value that which was truly valuable and my life was healing from the inside out.

The plan for your healing is there. You can activate yourself onto the fast path. It’s up to you.

The ONLY way I know to get on the fast path is through a dedicated spiritual practice.

Spiritual practice saves time. Time is for learning. If you stop refusing the learning and repeating it over and over again, you can heal at a quantum pace. Spiritual practice is the only way I know to do that.It IS miraculous! Are you willing to live the miraculous plan that is encoded into YOUR script? When would you like to start?How about now?"--Jennifer Hadley

- See more at: http://jenniferhadley.com/2014/06/waking-up-part-13-realizing-theres-a-plan/?

Brilliantly put, Jennifer!   

Are You are Holding Yourself Back?

Why Forgive?

You may be wondering why forgiveness is so important.  Well, here are two very big reasons why you are holding yourself back whenever you do not forgve. 

1)  You are holding yourself back from going home to God.  Our goal is to be more like God so that we can go home and be with him.  Until we become more like him we are destined to remain in  this "dream world" of  suffering and fear. 

God does not judge.  He only sees our true and perfect selves.  In A Course in Miracles, we are asked to give up all forms of judgment and to accept and forgive everything in our lives.
 
"It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize, not that he should not judge, but that he cannot." --A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers 10, 2, 1



"God's Son is guiltless, and sin does not exist."--A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers 10, 2,9

2)  You are holding yourself back from knowing peace while you are here.  Relinquishing judgments by accepting and forgiving this world is the only path to inner peace.

"God's word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. But it is true that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted."  A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers 11, 1, 7

We look at the world differently by seeing through the eyes of forgiveness. We drop all judgments.  We know that every person here is a brother, even if sometimes they have forgotten this themselves and behave badly in ignorance.   We must know their real identity for them.   We accept with grace the events of this world and trust that they are happening here for us as a means where we can grow and purify by accepting and forgiving.  When we accept everything that happens to us, we are creating peace in our minds. 

"How is peace possible in this world?  In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace."--A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers 11, 3, 7-9  

Start a forgiveness habit today and move your life in the direction of happiness!  It doesn't happen overnight, but with diligent practice your life will change in ways that astonish you. 

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