Some days I ask for something that will help me for the day and I’ll flip to a random page in a book. Today I flipped to page 528 in A Course in Miracles. (Already off to a good start as 528 is the frequency of love) These three pages focused greatly on forgiveness. Just before this little activity, I had been talking to a friend on how I didn’t know how to forgive someone in my life right now.
I have to stop underlining because every line can be underlined, but here’s some beautiful forgiveness wisdom:
“Christ stands before you, each time you look upon your brother. He has not gone because your eyes are closed.”
“In everyone you see but the reflection of what you choose to have him be to you”
“How beautiful his sinlessness will be when you perceive it! And how great will be your joy, when he is free to offer you the gift of sight God gave to him for you! He has no need but this; that you allow him freedom to complete the task God gave to him. Remembering but this; that what he does, you do, along with him. And as you see him, so do you define the function he will have for you, until you see him differently and let him be what God appointed that he be to you”
“In your brother you see the picture of your own belief in what the Will of God must be for you. In your forgiveness will you understand His Love for you”
“The grace of God rests gently on forgiving eyes, and everything they look on speaks of Him to the beholder.”
“Here, where the laws of God do not prevail in perfect form, can he yet do one perfect thing and make one perfect choice. And by this act of special faithfulness to one perceived as other than himself, he learns the gift was given to himself, and so they must be one. Forgiveness is the only function meaningful in time.”