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Lesson 122: ”Forgiveness offers everything I want.”

AI Reframe: Letting go gives me what I truly seek.

Suggested Practice:
Two 15-minute practices today, morning and evening. “Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold out the sure rewards of questions answered and what your acceptance of the answer brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you.”  (ACIM, W-122.11:1-2)

See yourself as walking into the light and receiving the gifts of happiness, peace, and joy that have been held in store for you since time began.

Then throughout the day, retain your gifts, hold them firmly in your mind. Remind yourself how precious these gifts are as often as possible—ideally once every fifteen minutes with the statement:

Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Today I have accepted this as true.
Today I have received the gifts of God*.

* The Course defines “God” as an impersonal, formless, and infinite principle of pure Love. Substitute whatever term that resonates best and allows you to receive the message.

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Message

From the first paragraph of the lesson:

“What could you want forgiveness cannot give? ²Do you want peace? ³Forgiveness offers it. ⁴Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? ⁵Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? ⁶Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset? All this forgiveness offers you, and more.” (ACIM, W-122.1:1–2:1)

I realize most will see today’s lesson as a practice of forgiving ourselves for grievances toward someone else. For example, if a friend stood you up and you decided to be upset about it, the standing up is on them. Deciding to be upset is on you. Once you forgive yourself for that choice, you can return to peace and clarity about how—or if—to respond to your friend.

But for me, this lesson is more about forgiving myself for the grievances I’ve created toward myself. The ones where I condemn, judge, and belittle myself for my own thoughts and behavior. Intellectually, I know my ego-mind is just recycling what I absorbed as a child and took as gospel.

If you don’t stop eating, you’re going to get fat like your mother.
Don’t upset your father.
You’re not wearing that are you?
What did you do to your hair?
What will the neighbor’s think?
Oh, you don’t want to do [whatever hopeful dream I had].
Always put other people’s needs ahead of your own.

In later years, these statements turned into thoughts like:

No one will love or like me if I are fat—including myself.
Make sure everyone else is happy.
What other people think of me is more important than what I think of myself.
No one wants to hear what I have to say.
I’m not good enough to fulfill my dreams.
I’m not worthy of fulfilling my dreams.
I am not lovable.
I am not enough.

These are just some of the grievances toward myself I came up with off the top of my head. I see now how these fears and limiting beliefs suffocate my peace, my happiness, and my true Self. It’s time to forgive myself for creating these thoughts and for believing they were real.

With that in mind, I did the first of two 15-minute practices. (I’ll do the second later tonight.) I let myself imagine what it would feel like to exist without these grievances. In other words, I let myself sink into happiness.

A vision came: I’m walking along a road. In the distance, mountains. Ahead, a tall block wall stretches across the road. I’ve been here many times and always turned away because I couldn’t see how to get past it. This time, I walk right up to it. On closer look, the wall is made of empty cardboard boxes. Instead of turning away, I knock it down and keep going. A crowd on both sides of the road cheers me on. They’ve been there the whole time. I didn’t realize I had so much support.

After the practice, I felt empowered—so much so that I asked ChatGPT to create two images (before and after the wall) as visual reminders for my experience.

Now my list collapses into one: forgiveness reminds me that I am whole and complete just as I am.

“Forgiveness is simply letting go of all dead thoughts (and that’s anything that’s not happening right this very now).”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
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