Commentary on ACIM Lesson 259

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Let me remember there is no sin.

Translation: Let me remember there is nothing that is unforgivable. Therefore, let me remember that my/our only function is forgiveness. Starting with 'yours truly'.

In fact, beyond 'starting'. Until forgiving ourselves is complete, there is no other 'spiritual growth' agenda.

Do you wish to know why forgiveness is our only function? It is because all our suffering, event by event, began by NOT forgiving... and not forgiving is exactly what is keeping in place all our current suffering. So the Course is giving us the way out. And it knows it is the way we (meaning everyone) will ultimately chose of our own free will.

Why would God allow this?...(meaning, let us continue our delusional egoic insanity and the hellish nightmare it creates in the place of Heaven....).

Because, there is nothing that is unforgivable.

Being a savior in this world is nothing more that forgiving all lack of Love, wherever/whenever it occurs. And that is what actual Love always does.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 259

Let me remember that there is no sin.

Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?

Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.