A Forgiven World

"You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can let yourself be wakened. You can overlook your brother's dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions, he becomes your savior from your dreams. And as you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you will see that God HimSelf is where his body is. Before this light the body disappears, as heavy shadows must give way to light. Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. By your gift of freedom is it given unto you. Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you can extend. On earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from your mind." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 29, Section III, 3:2-7, 12-13, & 4:1-2

I've come to the point in my journey where I know that literally everything is projection. I know that all I can ever see is my own consciousness, literally like a movie projected and played as my life. Do I always remember this in the face of challenges? Nope. So forgiveness becomes even more imperative, and never fails to reveal the miracle of Reality behind my projections, funny or scary, seemingly good or seemingly bad.

Miracles are revealed through forgiveness. We are always and only forgiving our false perceptions of each other and the world. Without our perceptions, which are really our own projections, there is only the natural awareness of our Oneness with God, with All Love and All Good. "Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward." (ACIM; Workbook 304, 1:3-4)

How does forgiveness work? We allow Truth to show us our own projections. "This is the shift that true perception brings: what was once projected out is now seen within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear." (ACIM; Manual for Teachers 4, 6:1) Then what is the miracle? What remains and is seen when forgiven illusion falls away. "Miracles are seen in Light." The Light of Truth.

Miracles are glimpses of Reality in the dream. They show the insubstantial nature of the thought-forms we call the world. Behind every thought we project on the world lies the True Idea of God... Perfect Wholeness, Perfect Love, Perfect Acceptance and Affirmation of Life and Being. Jesus saw this so perfectly... so the only question he asked of anyone who came to him for healing was, do you want to see this, too? Do you want to be whole? Do you want to see yourself as you really are, as One with God?

So even though all we're ever forgiving are our own projections, it's essential that we forgive each of them. In this way our forgiven projections, our brothers, become the miracles we offer to ourselves and a forgiven world. Our forgiven projections are our saviors from our own delusion.

"What cause have you for anger in a world that merely awaits your blessing to be free?" -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 30, Section II, 4:1