Lesson 062: ”Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.”
AI Reframe: Releasing old stories helps me see more clearly.
Suggested Practice:
One-two minute sessions at the beginning and ending of your day. And for as many practice periods as possible throughout the day. Start each session, with eyes closed if possible, by telling yourself:
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
I would fulfill my function that I may be happy.
Then consider your function and the happiness and release it will bring you. ⁵Let related thoughts come freely, for your heart will recognize these words, and in your mind is the awareness they are true. ⁶Should your attention wander, repeat the idea and add:
I would remember this because I want to be happy. (ACIM, W-62.5:4-7)
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Message
Yesterday we established our identity: we are the light of the world.
Today we look at our function as that light: forgiveness.
As I read the lesson this morning, I remembered a question posed to me years ago: Who suffers more—the person in jail or the jailor?
At first it seemed obvious. The one behind bars, of course.
But look closer. The jailor must build the prison, maintain it, and remain inside it to run the operation. Even if they can move about more freely, they still inhabit the same gray walls. Both are confined. Both are affected. Neither is at peace.
So it is with grievances.
When we hold them against others, we build the prison and then live inside it. When we hold them against ourselves, we do the same—and often tighten the bars.
And here’s the part that humbles me: our self-grievances don’t just affect us.
Years ago, after several seasons of therapy, someone told me, “You seem so much happier. You used to be so sad all the time. I felt bad for you.”
I hadn’t realized my private suffering was not private at all. My dimmed light dimmed the room.
Forgiveness, then, is not about excusing behavior—ours or anyone else’s. It’s about recognizing the prison we’ve constructed and deciding we no longer wish to live there.
Nothing anyone has done—or that we have done—changes what we are.
If we are the light of the world, then forgiveness is simply remembering that in ourselves and in everyone else.
Not denying what happened. Not spiritual bypassing. Just refusing to confuse behavior with identity.
When we release the grievance, the door opens.
And light does what light does.
“When you surrender long-standing beliefs about yourself, about the world, about what is and isn’t possible, you literally embark on a magnificent adventure.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
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