A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 342, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 342 I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me.

Lesson 342

I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me.

1. I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. ²It is not real. ³And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. ⁴The key is in my hand, and I have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams. ⁵I stand before the gate of Heaven, wondering if I should enter in and be at home. ⁶Let me not wait again today. ⁷Let me forgive all things, and let creation be as You would have it be and as it is. ⁸Let me remember that I am Your Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing light of truth, as memory of You returns to me.

2. Brother, forgive me now. ²I come to you to take you home with me. ³And as we go, the world goes with us on our way to God.

I stand before the gates to Heaven, wondering how to get in. And yet, the key is in my hand. The key is forgiveness, and I know how to forgive. I forgive the belief the world has done anything to me. As I forgive the belief that my brother has caused my suffering, I let all things be as God created them. I forgive my belief in the world. I forgive the belief that I could ever have separated from God or from my brothers. As I let go of all I believed, the truth arises in my mind, and the memory of God returns.

I don’t want to stand here before the gates waiting to enter.

That is why I am vigilant for any false beliefs that I still cling to. Last night I was watching a show about family, about loss and love. It made me cry, and I realized that I was feeling regret about all the missed opportunities in my life. I can believe in regret, or I can believe in redemption. I choose redemption. All that I had to do was to forgive those memories and forgive the belief in regret.

This morning I woke up with true beliefs echoing in my mind. I am grateful that my mind is my servant and will believe what I teach it to believe. It is my choice to teach it true ideas from now on. I am grateful for the belief in abundance and in health. And I choose the belief in opportunity and the right use of time. I believe in joy at the thought of doing my work. Thus, I look forward to a day of happiness and peace of mind. I keep my mind clear of error as I forgive any thoughts in opposition to the choices I made this morning.

Once again, Jesus asks us to forgive him.

I forgive Jesus as I forgive all our brothers and myself. This is so because we are one. He says that he comes to take us home with him. I feel so much gratitude for my brother, Jesus. He understood forgiveness, and even as he stood at the gate, key in his hand, he came back for us. Here is his promise to us.

I will love you and honor you and maintain complete respect for what you have made, but I will not uphold it unless it is true. ⁸I will never forsake you any more than God will, but I must wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself. ⁹Because I wait in love and not in impatience, you will surely ask me truly. ¹⁰I will come in response to a single unequivocal call. (ACIM, T-4.III.7:7-10)

³If you want to be like me I will help you, knowing that we are alike. ⁴If you want to be different, I will wait until you change your mind. (ACIM, T-8.IV.6:3-4)

Thank you, Brother.

God’s plan to save us from the hell we made is simple.

We will all eventually accept the truth that in spite of what we have made of the world, all is well. Nothing real has been done, and this frees us of the belief in guilt. This is forgiveness. Sure, we start with the idea that we forgive a person or a situation for what it is, but that is not it. We are always forgiving thoughts, ideas, beliefs. That is all there is to forgive.

We forgive the idea that what is thought separate from God could be true or have true effects. Yes, thought does produce form, but form is illusion and not reality. In a leap of faith, we forgive the idea that someone or something specific has harmed us. We do this for a while until, finally, we understand that forgiveness is just the recognition that nothing has happened that needs forgiveness. When this is done, when guilt is seen as the nothing it is, we do indeed stand before the gate of Heaven.

Regina’s Tips

Regina tells us about a very detailed dream she had and then explains where it came from by sharing how each detail was from a random event in her life, some recent and some long ago. Then she tells us this.

I am sharing this with you because this is how our world is made too. All of the old ideas—old thoughts, perceptions, impressions, and beliefs from the collective subconscious—are woven together to create what appears to be a new present, but it is actually just a regurgitation of old thoughts, perceptions, impressions, and beliefs. And the miracle sees it as meaningless regurgitation.

Some people may give my dream meaning by analyzing it and saying, “This means that, and that means this,” but that misses the point entirely. The point is that the dream (and the world) is meaningless. When we give it no new meaning, we accept the correction. If we give the dream meaning, the subconscious is rebuilt, and the regurgitation continues.

It’s true that I can look at my dream and see what is in my subconscious. The seven elements above show that. But seeing that enables me to look at the dream and realize, “Oh, the dream was just made up from a random reordering of the subconscious.” In other words, what I see in the dream is merely false.

And that is true of the world we see also.

My Thoughts

Over the last few weeks, this fact is being reinforced for me in different ways. I had a general idea before, but now I am seeing it more clearly. The world is not real. It is just ideas in the subconscious being reordered over and over to look like something new. I have been reading an interesting book by Natalie Sudman, The Application of Impossible Things. It is about her NDE. Hers was very detailed and a bit different than other stories by people who have had near-death experiences.

One thing that has caught my attention in her story is that on arrival in that dimension, she was met by a group of thousands of souls. They communicated without words, and the communication was complete, not just what happened in her life but how it felt and what it meant, everything about it that she experienced, and now they had that experience.

We share all information, and this information is what is turned into more experience. We are not living a new life, but rather we are experiencing rearranged bits of information to appear new, just like Regina’s dream. The point is this world is not real, and these are not really our lives.

We draw from our collective consciousness the ideas and elements we want to experience, and then we call it a life. How on earth could anyone be guilty of anything that happens in this exploration of ideas? Equally important, do we really want to keep doing this? Do we really want to keep regurgitating these random events and pretending something real is happening? Or do we want to return to our natural state as true Creators?

Regina

Today’s lesson says, “I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. It is not real. And you have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. The key is in my hand,…”

The “means to prove its unreality to me”—the key—is forgiveness, which is abiding as the unaffected Self. Abiding unaffected is giving no new meaning to the regurgitation that is the world.

The Loving All Method is a gentle way of abiding as the unaffected Self. Therefore, living the Loving All Method is forgiveness. It is the key.

My Thoughts

Chapter 12 of The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss

I’m glad Regina brought this up again. This has been a very effective process for me in the past, but I haven’t thought about it recently. I am going to do as she suggests and re-read it. It is very short, clear, and to the point. You might find it helpful to read it, too. Just click the above link.

This is an older posting, but I love the message from Holy Spirit, so I am leaving it as is.

It seems to me that there are layers of unforgiveness in my life. There are the people who seem to have attacked me. These are the easiest of the layers to forgive. I can see these people as doing the best they can, just as I am. At times I can be aware that their actions are simply reflections of my own errors. Sometimes I remember that none of us are really here, but that “here” is just an out-picturing of a thought of separation. Every seemingly separate thing out here is really just the same thought of separation imagined in different ways.

There is a layer of unforgiveness that pretends to be something else. This one is a little harder to discern. To become aware of it, I usually have to find it through its effects. I feel angry or fearful of someone or some situation, and I know there is something for me to forgive. Often I will see what is happening but not be able to understand why.

An example of this would be when my son was sick.

I felt a great deal of fear, and this indicates a need for forgiveness. But for a long time, I could not figure out how to forgive the situation. I tried, and yet the fear remained. The ego part of my mind argued for the reality of the situation and clung to the fear as if it would protect me. I became afraid to let the fear go, so I was unwilling to forgive, and this whole attitude made no sense. The ego deals with that by simply ignoring the obvious nonsense of its position.

The inability to see clearly what needs to be forgiven and to choose forgiveness is always an indication that I don’t want to give up what is making me suffer. I have placed some value on the grievance and cling to it. I know for certain that it is not really hard to figure out. Salvation is simple. It rests on forgiveness, and forgiveness is not complicated. If it is not what God would think, then I need to forgive it.

As soon as I decide on forgiveness, it is done.

If it is not done, then I have not really decided on it in spite of what I am telling myself. When I am deluding myself and feel confused, I can sometimes share the problem with someone else, and they can help me see more clearly. Sometimes I can journal about it, and eventually, I will see what is really going on. In the case of my son’s sickness, I called on help by joining in prayer with others to break through the ego resistance.

I never really have to “do” anything to achieve forgiveness and to wake up, but sometimes I have to do something to convince myself that this is what I really want. It is always solved through my willingness to see differently. It doesn’t matter what form the solution takes. I can be sure that it will come in the form that is most helpful to me at the moment. What matters is that I want to forgive more than I want my grievance. When that happens, the way will be made clear.

Holy Spirit, would you talk to me about this?

Holy Spirit: Think for a moment about how uncomfortable you have been for the last three days. What has been on your mind?

Me: I have had problems with my stomach and have felt physical discomfort and uneasiness in my mind because I don’t know if it is serious.

I have been trying to write a blurb for my new book and can’t think what to say. It makes me feel anxious because it is taking so long and because nothing is coming to me.

My non-profit is getting low on money. I don’t have enough money for all the things that need to be done this time of the year. There are so many people who need help at Christmas and I don’t have enough money to help them.

There are others but those are the ones that come to mind.

Holy Spirit: Myron, when you have asked me for help, I have sent you to the same message several times. I know you remember what that message is.

Me: Yes. I read it in Of Monkeys and Dragons. You must learn to trust in Its (Life’s) CONTINUED PRESENCE and ABSOLUTE GOODNESS and Its ability to keep all things intact – without your help.

Holy Spirit: Please continue to practice this just as you did this morning.

When you feel physically uncomfortable, give your trust to Life. If there is something for you to do you will be directed. The idea of doing it will simply appear in your mind.

When you have time to sit down and write, relax your mind, and allow the words to flow. When you try to direct this, even as you decide it should be done right now or in a certain way, you block Divine Intelligence that would flow easily through you if you allowed it. Do not strive to direct that Intelligence; simply allow.

When you look at your bank account, when you hear about someone who seems to need help, when you look at the list in your purse of all that needs to be taken care of, you become anxious and disturbed because you are, once again, trying to direct Life. You do not know what any of this means. You do not know what needs to be done or by whom, or when. Relax into this realization. It is a very comfortable place to be. It is a stress-free place. Become willing to be a conduit through which Life can experience Itself rather than the director of that which you cannot begin to fathom.

Myron, this is why I sent you to this message more than once. This is the message I want you to practice until it is the way you think.

Me: Ha ha ha. I get it now.

I see that I kept asking You for a message because I didn’t want the one you sent me. Seems I wanted a second opinion. I wanted You to give me the answer I thought should come from You, rather than the one You know I need. I accept Your message gladly and am grateful for it. Today, I dedicate myself to this practice.

Contemplation 2025

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