Forgiveness does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin.

3/14/24 - I am being honest when I see the illusions of this world as illusions, and not as reality. By overlooking what is not there, we open the way to truth which has been blocked by the guilt of our ego. Once one brother receives this gift of forgiveness from me, it opens the door for me to forgive myself. What I thought I saw before as sin, was never there for either one of us.
In Lesson 134 of A Course In Miracles, we are directed to choose one brother as the Holy Spirit directs and list his “sins” as they cross our mind, not dwelling on any one in particular. We are using his “offenses” to save the world from all ideas of sin. This works because we share one life. After considering all the evil thoughts we had of him, we should then ask our self something like this:
“Do I want to condemn myself for doing these things?”
This doesn’t mean would I find myself guilty if I did this same thing, but if I condemn him for doing this, I am condemning myself too because we are one body in Christ. If I condemn him, I have slipped a noose around both of our necks.
This is where we see that self-forgiveness is tied directly to forgiveness. Once I free my brother from all the thoughts I had of sin in him, I have prepared us both for freedom. If I will honestly practice freeing up my brother, I will begin to feel a weight lifting from my heart, and I will get a deep sense of relief. This is how I escape the heavy chains I laid upon my brother and myself.
Forgiveness is something we need to practice because there is nothing in this world that would lead us to understand any of God’s laws that govern it. One way to not slip back into our old ways of self-deception about accusing a brother of sinning is to not allow our minds to dwell on what we think he is doing wrong. Instead of focusing on those thoughts, it is better for us to say something like this to our self,
“Let me see my brother’s error as an error and not as sin.
Isn’t it better for me to forgive him than to lay this chain upon myself?”
This question reminds us that we share one life.
The bottom line is that my self-forgiveness is utterly dependent on first forgiving the brother who has “offended” me. By changing my perception of my brother, I see us both as guiltless sons of God. Then we can laugh at the mad idea that we could ever be separated from each other or from God and walk through Heaven’s gate together.
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[@thierrymunseugandachildren802]

Amen God bless you for sharing

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[@thierrymunseugandachildren802]

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@@danielgreen.6616 This video was in response to your comment about forgiving ourselves. Thank you for the inspiration!

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Thank you as well!!