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Still reading and assimilating the book. Saving most questions and comments for when I am done and have started re-reading it. In the meantime though...

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There is a young woman that I have seen in a Course group I have mostly not been attending for a few years, but I do see her once in awhile. She e-mailed me a couple of weeks ago telling me that she was having very bad problems with her boyfriend of 5 years and was wondering if she could stay at my house for awhile. She had called for help for phone via voicemail about a month ago but had later said she found some relief through talking with a national?ACIM leader. Turned out the help was only temporary, because he just said to forgive but didn't help find out how through examples, etc. in her life or in his, etc. Just forgive. She has since been undergoing counselling, too, with her boyfriend with a church (ACIM type) minister, but the minister had gotten emotionally involved and could not counsel them anymore. Anyway, she has been staying here with me in Indianapolis for about a week and been on a?roller coaster.

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We have had some good talks - and I have been helped in talking with her, too,?thanks to the refresher course I've been reading?that is?The Disappearance of the Universe. In fact, it might be that this morning we had a turning point as I helped her realize that she wasn't upset for the reason she thought. She is off meeting with him now, and we'll see. He is a Course student, too, so they are both trying to use it.

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What I wanted to tell you, though, (my point ) is that last night she was really so angry and upset that she was even somewhat violent. But I had printed out for her TRUE FORGIVENESS - A Thought Process Example and offered it to her saying that it could be useful anytime she might be in an ego snit and needed help out of it. She had left it on the table, so I didn't know if she ever would take it. This morning she reported that she had woken up feeling bad and had taken the printout, applied it, and that it had helped her very much. Because of reading it, she had come out of the ego frame of mind and felt much better and was able to go to sleep. She had woken up feeling good, too, which was great, because meantime I had been given? an idea of what I thought might be the true crux of their problem. I could never have talked with her about it if she were still in the ego state of the night before. And it is all perfect timing, because if the talk with him works out this morning she is going to go forward with another action that she had been feeling too unforgiving to do. She and her boyfriend will go visit his father in Tennesee - who is really wanting to help them make it. It is a trip her boyfriend really hoped she would make.

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I don't know if all this will come about. I only know right now that she is in a better state because of this example that is on page 256. It is forgiveness in a nutshell.

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Thank you Arten and Pursah, and thank you Gary.

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Linda