Lesson 147. My mind holds only what I think with God.
(133) I will not value what is valueless.
(134) Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
I am struck by how different this lesson appears to me now. There was a time when I believed that I was somehow being asked to give up that which I valued and exchange it for something else that someone else thought was more valuable.
I will not value what is valueless. What is valuable? What is valuable is what we have identified as that which “I think with God”: peace, love, joy and oneness. These qualities engender the knowledge that all is well, cause me to greet everyone and everything with an open embracing acceptance, give me an inherent sense of freedom—a sense of soaring from within—and cause me to feel an intimacy with everything. I know the value of these inherent characteristics of my being from my own direct experience. What could possibly be more valuable than this?
Forgiveness is the invitation to experience only this. Forgiveness is to let go confusion over who I am so that I experience only those qualities inherent in Source and thus inherent in me. Forgiveness is, in fact, the embodiment of those very things: knowing all is well, practicing open embracing acceptance, experiencing and extending an inherent sense of freedom and experiencing an intimacy with everything. Forgiveness is recognizing that anything I seem to think or experience that is different from those qualities is simply untrue.
I am grateful for the simplicity of “salvation”/freedom.
