Unblocking our Connection to Love

Forgiveness, Healing, and Remembering Who We Are

My Mind Holds Only What I Think With God

"That is a fact and represents the truth of What you are and What your Father is.  It is this thought by which the Father gave creation to the Son, establishing the Son as a co-creator with Himself.  It is this thought that fully guarantees salvation to the Son.  For in his mind no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares.  Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness.  Yet it is forever true." --A Course in Miracles Workbook Review IV p. 273

Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from our awareness.  

This is one of the reasons why forgiveness is the key to happiness.  Our minds can never be fully restored to their true state, where we think and create with God, if we are holding grievances and judging others.

Simply put, we can never be happy when we are in a state of unforgiveness, because it blocks our connection to God.  And when our connection to God is blocked, we are not ourselves.  We are separated from our truth.  We are not living the love we were created to be.  And we are unable to give and receive love fully in this state.

Why Judgment Separates Us from Love

When we hold grievances and judge others, we are refusing to recognize the truth that not only were we created by the father as a co-creator, but that everyone else was, too!!

It is in the recognizing of this very fact, that we are all equal and the same...that we are all one...that we are all, simply, love...that we come to receive our own happiness.

Seeing Others as They Truly Are

Yes, others often forget their truth and behave in ways that are ignorant, selfish, or unkind.  But it is our responsibility as a true Son of God, to take the higher ground, to know their truth for them by holding a place of love in our minds for them.  And in so doing, we offer them—mentally and spiritually—a space to awaken to their own truth, that they too, are simply, love.  We offer them the chance to heal when we forgive them through our recognition of who they really are, co-creators of God.

The Healing Happens in the Mind

Because after all, this is all about the mind.  It's about what we do in our thinking. All minds are connected.  So when we forgive and offer love instead of fear, we are healing our own minds and we are offering healing to our trespassers as well.  And that is their chance to heal along with us.

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• Read this posting on what might be today's most important forgiveness issue, Forgiving World Leaders.    
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Let these tools support your journey — because forgiveness sets you free.

--Sue Pipal

Forgiveness and God’s Love: Insights from A Course in Miracles, Lesson 46

Does God Forgive?

Many of us were brought up believing we must ask God to forgive us.
However — God doesn’t forgive.
Does this idea surprise you?

God never judges, and therefore never finds it necessary to forgive.
This message can bring deep comfort:

"God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself." --A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 46

Created in Perfection

As our Creator, God always knows His truth about each of us.
We are perfect. We are only good. We are love — always and everywhere.

Since God made us exactly in His own image, we can only be these things.

When we perceive ourselves as flawed, sinful, or unworthy, we are caught in self-created illusion — a false perception that hides the truth of our divine innocence.  As our creator, God always knows his own truth about each of us and our inherent perfection.

Since God made us exactly in his own image, we can only be these things.  If we judge ourselves to be anything other than this, it is only our own self-created illusion.  We perceive that we are not perfect and therefore need God's forgiveness.

Why Forgiving Others Reveals Our Own Innocence

When we forgive others, we acknowledge their truth — that there is nothing to judge, because they too were created in perfection.

They are only good. They are love always and everywhere.

As we begin to see their truth clearly, something beautiful happens:
we start to remember our own.  If they are perfect, then we must be too.

"Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness.  Fear condemns and love forgives.  Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God.  For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation.  It is the means by which illusions disappear."  Lesson 46--A Course in Miracles 

Freedom from Fear and Guilt

Lesson 46 is the first place in the Workbook where forgiveness is explored in depth.
There is such safety in knowing that we never need to ask for God’s forgiveness — because asking implies it could be withheld.

Our unconscious fear that God might disapprove of us or withhold love is the root of nearly all inner conflict.  Here, in this early lesson, we are reassured: God never judges.  He has only love and support to offer us.

"I cannot be guilty because I am a Son of God.
I have already been forgiven.
No fear is possible in a mind beloved of God.
There is no need to attack because love has forgiven me."--Lesson 46

Want to go deeper into forgiveness?

Explore how forgiveness reconnects us to divine compassion in Unblocking our Connection to Love →.

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— Sue Pipal