LESSON SIXTY-EIGHT

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Love holds no grievances.

Love holds no grievances because Love makes no judgments, and, therefore, does not condemn.  When looking through the eyes of Love, One sees no reason to judge.

A grievance gives both reality and validity to an unreal dream.  It states that something did really happen, and it surely deserves severe correction.  Thus is the dream given validity it does not deserve!.

¹ You who were created by Love like Itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. – Why not?  Good question!  For grievances, being hate, are antithetical to Love. – To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. – You are Love Itself. – To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. – Separate and apart from all else of Creation, having been wounded in some way by another separated being who also must think He is a body, and therefore, not free, but prone to both being hurt and hurting. – It is the decision to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death.

This strange vision of Yourself is to be blind to Reality and, indeed, is pure insanity.

² Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your awareness. It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. – How could You hate and see Yourself as Love, simultaneously? – It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself.

And in Your hostility to Your Brother, so do You then project hostility unto Your good and kind Creator.  “Vengeance is mine!” howls the ego! attributing this idea unto God.

The ego is adept at both protection and projection, both concepts quite foreign both to God as well as to the Kingdom.

³ Shut off from your Self, Who remains aware of His likeness to His Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. – For You only allow Yourself to be aware of the ego. How painful is this limited vision, blinding You to Love. – Can all this arise from holding grievances? – Of course, it can, for grievances clog up Your mind, blocking off Your natural experience of Love. – Oh, yes! For he who holds grievances denies he was created by Love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?

For what is the human sense of God but a human ‘glorified’.  If You hate, then God must hate as well.  Such is the convoluted theory of the ego.

⁴ It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image as it is certain that God created them like Himself and defined them as part of Him. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are as it is certain that those who forgive will remember. Would you not be willing to relinquish your grievances if you believed all this were so?

What makes it so hard to let go of angry memories and the ‘gifting’ of guilt?  Grievances are an addiction.  You constantly turn to them like the addict to His cigarette or drug or alcohol.

⁵ Perhaps you do not think you can let all your grievances go. That, however, is simply a question of motivation. Today we will try to find out how you would feel without them. If you succeed even by ever so little, there will never be a problem in motivation ever again.

It may be that You have not realized just how much grievances do steal all Your peace and Your contentment.  For a grievance is but blatant anger, redirected from Yourself to Others..  Somewhere You are very angry with Yourself for the separation; yet does the ego refuse all guilt projecting it upon Your Brother.  Therefore, He does now becomes the focus of Your anger, displacing it from You.  This is far more bearable and often the contemplation of His guilt brings You great satisfaction.  You, the Son of God, Who is the Living Presence of His Love.

Once You have a memory – a taste – of that Reality, grievances do cease to be so pleasing.

⁶ Begin today’s extended practice period by searching your mind for those against whom you hold what you regard as major grievances. – You know, those who have really sinned against You! Done the unforgivable, whatever it seems to be. – Some of these will be quite easy to find. – Others may be buried yet they will be still bothering You. – Then think of the seemingly minor grievances you hold against those you like and even think you love. It will quickly become apparent that there is no one against whom you do not cherish grievances of some sort. This has left you alone in all the universe in your perception of yourself.

For God – Reality – knows nothing of the immense scope of ego grievances.  You need not struggle to forgive alone.  Turn quickly to the Holy Spirit for Its help in healing all of these painful experiences.  For the Holy Spirit Loves You dearly.

⁷ Determine now to see all these people as friends. Say to them all collectively, thinking of each one in turn as you do so:

⁸ I would see you as my friend
that I may remember you are part of me
and come to know myself.

Some forgiveness may come easily, other situations may make You gag on the words above.  No matter.  Don’t fault Yourself for this, but rather rely on Your willingness to try, for You will succeed, if not now, then soon.

⁹ Spend the remainder of the practice period trying to think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world which protects you and loves you and which you love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you, and holding you up. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way. At the end of the practice period tell yourself:

¹⁰ Love holds no grievances.
When I let all my grievances go,
I will know I am perfectly safe.

The Bible speaks of the everlasting arms of Love that are over, and around, under and above.

Safe indeed You are.

¹¹ The short practice periods should include a quick application of today’s idea in this form, whenever any thought of grievance arises against anyone, physically present or not:

¹² Love holds no grievances.

There’s nothing to fear.  There is nothing outside Yourself to harm You.  And Your Self is nothing but benign and so lovingkind.

Let me not betray my Self.

¹³ In addition, repeat the idea several times an hour in this form:

¹⁴ Love holds no grievances.
I would wake to my Self by laying all my
grievances aside and wakening in Him.

Grievances do keep One unconscious, dreaming away eternity.  Love – on the other hand – is quite alive and thriving.  Which one do You choose?  For Your choice makes all the difference for You.
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[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

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