ACIM Lesson 352 Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.
Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. ²Through this I come to You.
Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.
1. Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. ²Through this I come to You. ³Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. ⁴Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. ⁵I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. ⁶You have not left me comfortless. ⁷I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. ⁸Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. ⁹For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You.
The Memory of God
I was thinking what a perfect sentence this is: ⁷I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. We seem to be asleep but the truth is in our mind. Shut off from your Self, which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. (ACIM, W-68.2:1)
And in today’s lesson also, Jesus assures us that the memory of God is still in our mind. We can find that memory because the Holy Spirit is also in our mind and will lead us to it. Further, in Lesson 68 we are given a big clue as to why we are so confused. ²Can all this arise from holding grievances? (ACIM, W-68.2:2) To remember the Self and to remember the Creator, we must let go of our grievances through forgiveness. I have identified with the ego and now I am grateful to be led to my true Identity, an Identity I share with the Sonship.