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.