Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not
occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin.
And in this view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin except a false idea
about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it
go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgement that it will not raise to
doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released.
The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are
more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept
from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has
chosen as its needed goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal,
twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.
Distortion is its purpose and the means by which it would accomplish it as well.
It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for
anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends
no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearance that it likes. It
merely looks and waits and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for
he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must
learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do through Him Who is
your Guide, your Savior and Defender, strong in hope, and certain of your
ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given
Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved,
whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
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