Lesson 359 God's answer is some form of peace.
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Lesson 359
God's answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.
Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have
misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God.
What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we
rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us.
Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more
solid than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed.
Help us forgive, for we would be at peace.
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Commentary on this lesson by Ken Wapnick, from his books: "Journey Through the
Workbook of A Course in Miracles." Book set may be purchased at the following
site:
M. Street
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Lesson 359.
"God's answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake."
*This is the happy result when we realize we are the ones who were mistaken all
along, and the Holy Spirit was right.*
(1:1) "Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own."
*God's world, as we have seen, is the real world. We forgive it in the sense
that we now accept it as what we want, with no further desire to attack it,
which we were compelled to do in self-defense when we chose to retain our
identity as an individual self, seemingly at home in the ego's world of
specialness and death.*
(1:2-3) "We have misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the
holy Sons of God."
*In the insanity of the separation, we believed in the reality of our existence.
Yet this belief did not give us the power to make the Son of God a sinner.
<Ideas leave not their source>, and the truth is that we are a sinless Idea in
the sinless Mind of God, our Source.
"The Son of God can be mistaken; he can deceive himself; he can even turn
the power of his mind against himself. But he <cannot> sin. There is nothing he
can do that would really change his reality in any way, nor make him really
guilty." (T-19.II.3:1-3) *
(1:4-6) "What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we.
And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on
us."
*We again see our joyous gratitude in being wrong, seeing that our delusional
mistakes of betraying love -- rejecting, attacking, and destroying it --
accomplished nothing. God loves us; Jesus loves us; nothing has changed, for
Christ in us remains sinless forever, with our mad dreams of sin having no
effects upon reality. See these two statements from the text:
"Son of God, you have not sinned, but you have been much mistaken."
(T-10.V.6:1)
"Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your
mistakes will disappear." (T-21.II.2:7)*
(1:7-9) "Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain
base more solid than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be
redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at peace."
*Forgiveness allows us to recognize the impossibility of sin. It rests on a
solid base -- the reflection of God's Love in our right minds -- while our
perceptions of bodily sin, attack, and pain rest on no base at all. They are all
illusory, their purpose being to defend against the mind's illusion of sin and
separation. Yet illusions bring us no peace, and so we happily choose the Holy
Spirit's forgiveness, the doorway to the real world of light, peace, and joy --
our home away from home.*
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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