From The Song of Prayer, 2. Forgiveness, III. Forgiveness-for-Salvation
I forgive so I may embrace the all-encompassing Oneness That Is. I am not separate from you and you from me. It seems that way when I look at you, but who are you really? Who am I really? Are we the sum of our past, our personality quirks, our pain, our attempts at happiness? Are you or I really in control here? I am in control of my thoughts that I think. With whom will I think them with? Spirit or ego?
I don’t know what forgiveness will look like. I surrender to the un-forming. All I need do is call to the Christ. The Christ will lead me down a splendid path strewn with blossoms of love, carpeting my way. There is only God’s Will. And yet I am to ask, “What should I do for him, Your Holy Son?” when help is needed and forgiveness sought. What should I do? Not, I KNOW what to do. In this query is the stepping aside so that light indeed may guide.
In my life when I have come across these times whether the call is subtle or a wailing (and it just isn’t someone else but I can fall into that category or two myself), what have I done? At times I ignored the forgiveness call and shoved it aside to yet another, later time. Other times I accepted the call, listened to the Christ and allowed His Answer to grace me. What is His Answer? Seeing through the Eyes of Holiness.
I think about the previous year when I had circumstances that shook my foundation as maddening communication came my way in the form that I judged to be from such twisted minds. I worked through these times, first remembering that I am not what others indicate or judge me to be. If I take those projections on, then I am owning them as true. After I worked through that level, I remembered that those others had forgotten who they were in God’s Eyes. It was my job to see them with God’s Eyes. When I did this, then what occurred dissipated to the point that I have to spend time really recalling what those situations were. And this I have embrace just merely over the last two months as our current class looked at “Health is Inner Peace.”
Do I give my “health” away to the ego’s judgments and projections? Meaning my spiritual and mental health? Or do I rest in Him Who is my Source and release the world and all its “charms” and allow the gift to be given through me to these others. When I do this, it takes on such new meaning for me. I see my brother outlined in light. Then, as I look more closely, the image of the body vanishes and I see only light. Then, we are no bodies no more, we are saved, we are united in His Holy Light. There is no we, but only the Son of God.
Namaste,
Rev. Deb
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III. Forgiveness-for-Salvation
S-2.III.1. Forgiveness-for-Salvation has one form, and only one. 2 It does not ask for proof of innocence, nor pay of any kind. 3 It does not argue, nor evaluate the errors that it wants to overlook. 4 It does not offer gifts in treachery, nor promise freedom while it asks for death. 5 Would God deceive you? 6 He but asks for trust and willingness to learn how to be free. 7 He gives His Teacher to whoever asks, and seeks to understand the Will of God. 8 His readiness to give lies far beyond your understanding and your simple grasp. 9 Yet He has willed you learn the way to Him, and in His willing there is certainty.
S-2.III.2. You child of God, the gifts of God are yours, not by your plans but by His holy Will. 2 His Voice will teach you what forgiveness is, and how to give it as He wills it be. 3 Do not, then, seek to understand what is beyond you yet, but let it be a way to draw you up to where the eyes of Christ become the sight you choose. 4 Give up all else, for there [is] nothing else. 5 When someone calls for help in any form, He is the One to answer for you. 6 All that you need do is to step back and not to interfere. 7 Forgiveness-for-Salvation is His task, and it is He Who will respond for you.
S-2.III.3. Do not establish what the form should be that Christ’s forgiveness takes. 2 He knows the way to make of every call a help to you, as you arise in haste to go at last unto your Father’s house. 3 Now can He make your footsteps sure, your words sincere; not with your own sincerity, but with His Own. 4 Let Him take charge of how you would forgive, and each occasion then will be to you another step to Heaven and to peace.
S-2.III.4. Are you not weary of imprisonment? 2 God did not choose this sorry path for you. 3 What you have chosen still can be undone, for prayer is merciful and God is just. 4 His is a justice He can understand, but you cannot as yet. 5 Still will He give the means to you to learn of Him, and know at last that condemnation is not real and makes illusions in its evil name. 6 And yet it matters not the form that dreams may seem to take. 7 Illusions are untrue. 8 God’s Will is truth, and you are one with Him in Will and purpose. 9 Here all dreams are done.
S-2.III.5. “What should I do for him, Your holy Son?” should be the only thing you ever ask when help is needed and forgiveness sought. 2 The form the seeking takes you need not judge. 3 And let it not be you who sets the form in which forgiveness comes to save God’s Son. 4 The light of Christ in him is his release, and it is this that answers to his call. 5 Forgive him as the Christ decides you should, and be His eyes through which you look on him, and speak for Him as well. 6 He knows the need; the question and the answer. 7 He will say exactly what to do, in words that you can understand and you can also use. 8 Do not confuse His function with your own. 9 He is the Answer. 10 You the one who hears.
S-2.III.6. And what is it He speaks to you about? 2 About salvation and the gift of peace. 3 About the end of sin and guilt and death. 4 About the role forgiveness has in Him. 5 Do you but listen. 6 For He will be heard by anyone who calls upon His Name, and places his forgiveness in His hands. 7 Forgiveness has been given Him to teach, to save it from destruction and to make the means for separation, sin and death become again the holy gift of God. 8 Prayer is His Own right Hand, made free to save as true forgiveness is allowed to come from His eternal vigilance and Love. 9 Listen and learn, and do not judge. 10 It is to God you turn to hear what you should do. 11 His answer will be clear as morning, nor is His forgiveness what you think it is.
S-2.III.7. Still does He know, and that should be enough. 2 Forgiveness has a Teacher Who will fail in nothing. 3 Rest a while in this; do not attempt to judge forgiveness, nor to set it in an earthly frame. 4 Let it arise to Christ, Who welcomes it as gift to Him. 5 He will not leave you comfortless, nor fail to send His angels down to answer you in His Own Name. 6 He stands beside the door to which forgiveness is the only key. 7 Give it to Him to use instead of you, and you will see the door swing silently open upon the shining face of Christ. 8 Behold your brother there beyond the door; the Son of God as He created him.
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