June 7, 2011
True healing is very frightening to many of us. It asks us to change how we view the world and each other and even ourselves. It asks us to give up the way we have thought all our lives. It asks us to let go of our attachment to the way we have always thought things should be. It asks us to question the rationale and sanity of all we have ever thought rational and sane. All we have been taught, all we have believed, all we have trusted is up for review. No wonder we are afraid of healing. It may upset our applecart!
Understanding true healing is dependant on our understanding of true forgiveness. True forgiveness lets go of the notion that one can ever wrong another. “Forgiving” one who has wronged us and retaining the idea that they have hurt us is not true forgiveness. In this way we still retain our attachment to the idea that we can be hurt. We are still hanging on to the identity of ourselves we made up, still not ready to believe the truth about who we really are. And so we still cannot see who another really is. In this way we “put on” and air of “forgiveness” while still believing we have been wronged.
If we say we are as we were created by God, whole and innocent and unattaclable, no one can wrong us. In Truth, one can never really wrong another. In reality it is impossible for me to wrong you and for you to wrong me. Understanding this idea is foreign to most of us and certainly doesn’t agree with what we have learned in this world. For we have immersed ourselves in a world of separation and illusion, trying to understand the world from the idea of separate identities rather than Oneness. We must begin to see and to believe that however it appears that we’ve been wronged in this world of separateness is not as it appears to our mind.
The Course provides us with a method of learning that we can change our mind. It gives us lessons that when done will help us, step by step, to change the way we think just a little at a time until a huge hole bursts open in what we thought was true and we begin to see the Mind of God in ourselves and each other. We begin to make sense of the idea that we are whole and innocent and that our true self cannot be wronged or hurt by anything unreal or of the world of form, no matter what it may look like to us at the moment. The love and peace of God is there within us. And as we change our way of thinking and believing, we experience that love and we understand true forgiveness and we see who the one with us and ourselves are truly One, the One holy creation of God. Be healed and know who you really are.
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