March 13, 2012
The Course asks us to let ourselves see beyond all appearances. That’s all appearances. If we are not willing to allow ourselves to see beyond all appearances, we are reserving the idea that some or a few appearances are real and thus not illusion. Looking beyond appearances is impossible to do when we approach doing so from our ego or separated mind. We have become attached to the appearances we think we see and the way we have always seen the world we live in. But as we are willing to let Spirit guide us, we begin to see beyond our first impressions based on our thoughts and ideas about how we see the world and others to a new appearance that reveals the truth about ourselves and each other. We see beyond the appearance of a separate body, limited and wrong, to the true essence of who we really are. We begin to see each other as God created and sees us. We recognize the Divine that is within all of creation that can never be denied.
Forgiveness is the process of letting ourselves see beyond appearances. It starts as all transformation starts with being willing, nothing more. We cannot be transformed unless we are willing to let ourselves be transformed. The willingness is the most difficult part. Once we entertain the idea of being willing to forgive, to see differently, to change our mind, we have opened the door to the infinite wisdom and power within us that is Divine. Spirit which is already within us directs our seeing, our forgiving, and the changing of our mind. Sprit reminds us of our own Oneness with God and each other and allows us to change our perception and see with Spirit eyes and love with Spirit hearts, and think with Sprit minds, the Mind of God that we all share.
As the Course has told us before, forgiveness is total. There can be no holding back of any forgiveness. It must be complete. For if we hold back any forgiveness, we have made some illusion seem real. We have reserved the thought that some thought or idea has power over the Divine and thus given power to that reserved thought to keep us from the full awareness of who we really are. The awareness of our true nature and being is unimaginably freeing. But if we reserve some bit of limitation or some bit of captivity, we are not free. We are either free or not. What would being almost free look like? Almost free is certainly not free in anyone’s definition. Forgiveness must also be complete and total.
Forgiveness, looking beyond all appearances, then brings healing. Healing is also total or complete. Who in their right mind would deny anyone any part of healing? Allow forgiveness to be complete and total. Hold no idea or thought back from the freedom of forgiveness. Complete freedom is our birthright. It is our gift from the Source given to us a t our creation. Be whole in the miracle of healing. Wholeness never left us, we simply forgot who we really are and believed it was true.
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