Section VIII. The Call for Faith 1. The substitutes for aspects of the situation are the witnesses to your lack of faith. They demonstrate that you did not believe the situation and the problem were in the same place. The problem was the lack of faith, and it is this you demonstrate when you removeContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
VII. The Conditions of Peace 1. The holy instant is nothing more than a special case, or an extreme example, of what every situation is meant to be. The meaning that the Holy Spirit’s purpose has given it is also given to every situation. It calls forth just the same suspension of faithlessness, withheld andContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
VI. Setting the Goal 1. The practical application of the Holy Spirit’s purpose is extremely simple, but it is unequivocal. In fact, in order to be simple it must be unequivocal. The simple is merely what is easily understood, and for this it is apparent that it must be clear. The setting of the HolyContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
V. The Healed Relationship 8-15 8. Accept with gladness what you do not understand, and let it be explained to you as you perceive its purpose, work in it to make it holy. You will find many opportunities to blame your brother for the “failure” of your relationship, for it will seem at times toContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
V. The Healed Relationship 1. The holy relationship is the expression of the holy instant in living in this world. Like everything about salvation, the holy instant is a practical device, witnessed to by its results. The holy instant never fails. The experience of it is always felt. Yet, without expression it is not remembered. Continue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
IV. The Two Pictures 11-16 11. The holy instant is a miniature of Heaven, sent you from Heaven. It is a picture, too, set in a frame. Yet if you accept this gift you will not see the frame at all, because the gift can only be accepted through your willingness to focus all yourContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
IV. The Two Pictures 1-8 1. God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share His purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function. Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of the relationships becameContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
III. Shadows of the Past 1. To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. For the shadow figures you would make immortal are “enemies” of reality.Continue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 II Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
II. The Forgiven World 1. Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. Nothing that you rememberContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 II Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship
I. Bringing Fantasy to Truth 1. The betrayal of the Son of God lies only in illusions, and all his “sins” are but his own imaginings. His reality is forever sinless. He need not be forgiven but awakened. In his dreams he has betrayed himself, his brothers, and his God. Yet what is done inContinue reading “A COURSE IN MIRACLES Chapter 17 Forgiveness and the Holy Relationship”
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