we continue today chapter 9 the holy
spirit plane forgiveness atonement is
for all because it is the way to undo
the believe that anything is for you
alone to forgive is to overlook look
then beyond error and do not let your
perception rest upon it for you will
believe what your perception holds
accept as true only what your brother is
if you would know yourself perceive what
he is not and you cannot know what you
are because you see him falsely remember
always that your identity is shared and
that is sharing is its reality you have
not a part to play in the atonement but
the plan of the atonement is beyond you
you do not understand how to overlook
errors or you would not make them it
would merely be further error to believe
either that you do not make them or that
you can correct them without a guide to
correction and if you do not follow this
guide your errors will not be corrected
the plan is not yours because of your
limited ideas about what you are the
sense of limitation is where all errors
arise the way to undo them therefore is
not of you but for you the atonement is
a lesson in sharing which has given you
because you have forgotten how to do it
the Holy Spirit merely reminds you of
the natural use of your abilities by
reinterpreting the ability to attack
into the ability to share he translates
what you have made into what God created
if you would accomplish this through him
you cannot look on your abilities
through the eyes of the ego
or you will judge them is it does all
their harmfulness lies in the egos
judgment all their helpfulness lies in
the judgment of the Holy Spirit the ego
too has a plan of forgiveness because
you're asking for one though not of the
right teacher the egos plan of course
makes no sense and will not work but
following its plan you will merely place
yourself in an impossible situation to
which the ego always leads you the egos
plan is to have you Sierra clearly first
and then over look at it how can you
overlook what you have made real by
seeing it clearly you have made it real
and cannot overlook at this is where the
ego is forced to appeal to mysteries
insisting that you must accept the
meaningless to save yourself
many have tried to do this in my name
forgetting that my words make perfect
sense because they come from God they
are a sensible now as they ever were
because they speak of ideas that are
eternal forgiveness that is learned of
me does not use fear to undo fear nor
does it make real the unreal and then
destroy it
forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies
simply and looking beyond there from the
beginning and thus keeping it unreal for
you do not let any belief in its
realness enter your mind or you will
also believe that you must undo what you
have made in order to be forgiven
what has no effect does not exist into
the Holy Spirit the effects of error or
non-existent by steadily and
consistently cancelling out all these
effects everywhere and in all respects
he teaches that the ego does not exist
and proves it
follow the Holy Spirit teaching and
forgiveness then because forgiveness is
function and he
knows how to fill it perfectly that is
what I meant when I said that miracles
are natural and when they do not occur
something has gone wrong
miracles are merely the sign of your
willingness to follow the Holy Spirit's
plan of salvation recognizing that you
do not understand what it is
his work is not your function unless you
accept this you cannot learn what your
function is the confusion of functions
is so typical of the ego that you should
be quite familiar with it by now the
believes that all functions belong to it
even though it has no idea what they are
this is more than mere confusion it is a
particularly dangerous combination of
grandiosity and confusion that makes the
ego likely to attack anyone anything for
no reason at all
this is exactly what the ego does it is
unpredictable and its responses because
it has no idea of what it perceives if
you have no idea what is happening how
appropriately can you expect to react
you might ask yourself regardless of how
you may account for the reaction whether
its unpredictability places the ego in
the sound position as your guide
let me repeat that the egos
qualifications as a guide are singularly
unfortunate and that it is a remarkably
poor choice as a teacher of salvation
anyone who elects a totally insane guide
must be totally insane himself nor is it
true that you do not realize the guide
is insane
you realize it because I realize it and
you have just it by the same standard i
have the ego literally lives on borrowed
time and it's days are numbered
do not fear the last judgment but
welcomed it and to not wait for the egos
time is borrowed from your eternity
this is
Second Coming that was made for you as
the first was created the second coming
is merely the return of sense
can this possibly be fearful what can be
fearful but fantasy and who turns to
fantasy unless he despairs of finding
satisfaction in reality it is certain
that you will never find satisfaction in
the fantasy so that your only hope is to
change your mind about reality only if
the decision that reality is fearful is
wrong
can God be right and i assure you that
God is right
be glad then that you have been wrong
but this was only because you did not
know you were had you known you could no
more have been wrong then God came the
impossible can happen only in fantasy
when you search for reality and
fantasies you will not find it
the symbols that fantasy art of the ego
and of these you will find many but do
not look for meaning in them they have
no more meaning than the fantasies into
which they are woven fairy tales can be
pleasant or fearful but no one calls and
true children may believe them and so
for while the tales are true for them it
when reality dawns the fantasies are
gone
reality has not gone in the meanwhile
the second coming is the awareness of
reality not its return
behold my child reality is here
it belongs to you and me and God and is
perfectly satisfying to all of us homie
this awareness heels because is it is
the awareness of truth
And from the workbook lesson 68
Love holds no grievances
You who were created by love like itself
can hold no grievances and know yourself
to hold a grievance is to forget who you are to
hold the grievances to see yourself as a
body to hold a grievance is to let the
ego rule your mind and to condemn the
body to death
perhaps you do not yet fully realize
just what holding grievances does to
your mind it seems to split you off from
your source and make you unlike him
it makes you believe that he is like
what you think you have become where no
one can conceive of his creator is
unlike himself shut off from yourself
which remains aware of his likeness to
his creator yourself seems to sleep
while the part of your mind that weaves
illusions and it's sleep appears to be
awake can all this arise from holding
grievances
oh yes for he who holds grievances
denies he was created by love and his
creator has become fearful to him in his
dream of hate who could dream of hatred
and not fear God it is as sure that
those who hold grievances will redefine
God in their own image and it is certain
that God created him like himself and
define them as part of him is as sure
that those who hold grievances will
suffer guilt as it is certain that those
who forgive will find peace
it is as sure that those who hold
grievances will forget who they are as
it is certain that those who forgive
we'll remember would you not be willing
to relinquish your grievances if you
believed all this were so perhaps you do
not think you can let your grievances go
that however is simply a matter of
motivation today we will try to find out
how you would feel without them
if you succeed even by ever so little
there will never be a problem motivation
ever again begin today's extended
practice period by searching your mind
for those against whom you hold what you
regard as major grievances some of these
will be quite easy to find
then think of the seemingly minor
grievances you hold against those you
like and even think you'd love it will
quickly become apparent that there is no
one against whom you do not cherish
grievances of some sort this has left
you alone in all the universe in your
perception of yourself determine now to
see all these people as friends say to
the mall thinking of each one in turn as
you do so i would see you as my friend
that I may remember you are part of me
and come to myself spend the remainder
of the practice period trying to think
of yourself as completely at peace with
everyone and everything safe in a world
that protects you and loves you and that
you love in return
try to feel safety surrounding you
hovering over you and holding you up
try to believe however briefly that
nothing can harm you in any way at the
end of the practice period tell yourself
love holds no grievances
when I let all my grievances go i will
know I am perfectly safe
the short practice period should include
a quick application of today's idea in
this form whenever any thought of
grievance rises against anyone
physically present or not love holds no
grievances let me not betray myself in
addition repeat the idea several times
an hour in this form love holds no
grievances i would wake to myself by
laying all my grievances aside and
awakening in him.
Love holds no grievances.
So today, we release all grievances from the mind.
We open our mind to accept the atonement,
to accept the correction.
We realize we cannot know anything about perception,
if we are to accept the correction the Holy Spirit offers
because the Holy Spirit overlooks error from the beginning
and the ego tells us we can see the error clearly
and then over look it.
This ego attempt at correction will never work.
We can only learn true correction from our guide the Holy Spirit.
This way of undoing errors in perception is not of us but it is for us.
Grievances are gone as I accept the atonement for myself.
The atonement is a lesson in sharing,
this is the natural use of my skills and abilities.
The Holy Spirit reinterprets the ability to attack into the ability to share.
The Holy Spirit translates what the ego made into what God created.
I release all grievances today
I will not condemn myself or my Creator any longer.
I will not attempt to redefine God as something other than love.
I won't attempt to define myself as anything other and love.
I allow everyone to come to mind that I have held a grievance against,
and then I forgive.
I give you, my holy brother, my holy sister, back to the Holy Spirit.
I give you back to God
I give you back to love.
I cannot know you as a body
I cannot know you in a person.
I cannot know you as existing in linear time and space.
I can only know as to Christ.
My very Self.
The self that God created as one, in eternal love
I remember this today,
as I repeat the lesson that God has given me,
Love holds no grievances.
Amen