Dagelijkse Les 225 God Is Mijn Vader En Zijn Zoon Houdt Van Hem - a podcast by Een Cursus in Wonderen

What is Forgiveness?

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?

An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.

Forgiveness, on the other hand, 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. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.

Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.


LES 225
God is mijn Vader, en Zijn Zoon houdt van Hem.

Vader, ik moet Uw Liefde voor mij wel aan U teruggeven, want geven en ontvangen zijn gelijk, en U heeft mij al Uw Liefde gegeven. Ik moet haar wel teruggeven, want ik wil dat zij in volle bewustzijn de mijne is, terwijl ze in mijn denkgeest straalt en die in haar vriendelijk licht bewaart, ongeschonden, bemind, met angst achter zich en voor zich alleen vrede. Hoe stil is de weg waarlangs Uw liefhebbende Zoon tot U wordt geleid!

Broeder, we vinden die stilheid nu. De weg is vrij. Nu volgen we die samen in vrede. Je hebt je hand naar mij uitgestrekt, en ik zal jou nooit verlaten. Wij zijn één, en het is louter deze eenheid die we zoeken, nu we deze paar laatste stappen volbrengen, waarmee een reis eindigt die nooit begonnen is.

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