August 17, 2021
Lesson 229 –
Love, which created me, is what I am.
This group of lessons speaks to the question, “What is forgiveness?” Forgiveness is letting go of our misperceptions of ourselves and others and recognizing that we are all holy, that we are all whole. We are created by Love, for Source is Love and only Love. We are an extension of our Creator – Source – and therefore are Love. The Course tells us that Love creates only Love and nothing else. In fact, it is impossible to create anything but Love. This lesson points us toward the recognition that we are Love and can be nothing else.
I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Creator has kept safe for me. W-pII.229.1:1-5
Our true Identity is and always has been. It cannot be changed or altered. It remains holy as it has always been. We may have lost sight of our Identity or even denied it. But our true Identity can never be changed. Reawakening to the awareness of our true Identity is called forgiveness – the shift in thought from a mistaken idea to the recognition of what is true. Forgiveness is simple and quiet, a simple recognition.
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. One who would not forgive must judge, for they must justify their failure to forgive. But one who would forgive themselves must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is. W-pII.1.4:1-5
Take a moment to be still and look within. In this quiet the Truth will become apparent. Love is recognized as it rises in our mind. Peace also rises in our awareness. This holy instant of stillness is all we need to step into this awareness of our true Identity. The lesson offers this prayer to help us make this shift.
Creator, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen. W-pII.229.2:1-3
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