Lesson 62
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
It is your forgiveness that will bring the world of darkness to the
light. It is your forgiveness that lets you recognize the light in which
you see. Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of
the world. Through your forgiveness does the truth about yourself return
to your memory. Therefore, in your forgiveness lies your salvation.
Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness
is a gift to yourself. Your goal is to find out who you are, having
denied your Identity by attacking creation and its Creator. Now you
are learning how to remember the truth. For this attack must be replaced
by forgiveness, so that thoughts of life may replace thoughts of death.
Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while
each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you. Do
you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you? It
will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind.
It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. It will restore the invulnerability
and power God gave His Son to your awareness.
Let us be glad to begin and end this day by practicing today's idea,
and to use it as frequently as possible throughout the day. It will
help to make the day as happy for you as God wants you to be. And it
will help those around you, as well as those who seem to be far away
in space and time, to share this happiness with you.
As often as you can, closing your eyes if possible, say to yourself
today:
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the
world.
I would fulfill my function that I may be happy.
Then devote a minute or two to considering your function and the happiness
and release it will bring you. Let related thoughts come freely, for
your heart will recognize these words, and in your mind is the awareness
they are true. Should your attention wander, repeat the idea and add:
I would remember this because I want to be happy.