My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 332 for November 26, 2024. Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
* BECAUSE it sets YOUR MIND FREE from BELIEF IN A WORLD OF SUFFERING AND PUNISHMENT.
1. The ego makes illusions.
* Illusions are unreal situations and ideas that WE BELIEVE TO BE TRUE.
²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away.
* THE TRUTH IS GOD’S REALITY AS THE ORIGINAL, UNIVERSAL CREATOR OF ALL THAT IS OR EVER COULD BE.
³Truth never makes attack.
⁴It merely is.
⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real.
* AND IT IS A BEAUTIFUL “PLACE” TO BE!
⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind.
* TRUE FORGIVENESS THAT FREES “ALL THAT IS,” ie. CHRIST, FROM THE “HOOK” OF YOUR BELIEF IN SEPARATION FROM ITSELF OR ITS CREATOR.
⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility.
* Futility: Futility refers to the quality of being futile or useless, achieving nothing12. It can also describe a useless act or gesture2
⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.
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2. We would not bind the world again today.
²Fear holds it prisoner.
³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free.
* I wonder if the TRUE MEANING OF LOVE IS MERELY “THE PRESENCE OF HEAVENLY FATHER?”
⁴Father, we would release it now.
⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us.
* Amen.
⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us.
* And AMEN!
(ACIM, W-332.1:1–2:6)
Till next time, God Bless, debi.
