My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 336 for November 30, 2024. Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.

Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.

* Yes.

1. Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception’s ending.

* Perception is deciding for ourselves what life is or even what is going on. The True Forgiveness in the atonement that I understand that Jesus of Nazareth is teaching.

²Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach.

* Yes, and that would be God because the “knowledge” we receive is that GOD IS Who is NOT OUR EQUAL ~~ even when we are WHOLE, from what I understand OR there would be NO POSSIBILITY of having a relationship with HIM which the atonement does give us and Jesus and I stand to bear witness of it.

³For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all.

* That “memory” would be GOD, HIMSELF ~ the Original, Universal Creator.

⁴Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth.

* That GOD IS and that HE ALONE DIRECTS HIS SON IN TRUTH.

⁵Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without.

* What have we sought without? It would be the meaning of existence or the answer to who are we and what is our purpose. Our purpose is to have joy in God, our Father.

⁶For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling place of God Himself.

* AMEN.

2. In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin.

* “Quiet” means to still the mind of belief that safety, comfort, satisfaction is found outside ourselves or more literally, outside of God.

²Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your Word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart.

* “Your Love” means God’s ESSENCE AND MINE (YOUR’S and THEIR’s).

(ACIM, W-336.1:1–2:2)

Till next time, God Bless, debi.