Join us this Sunday, Sep. 18, 2022
The two gathering experiment! 11:00 am to Noon is Zoom focused with in-person attendance welcome. 12:30 to 1:30 is in-person focused with a zoom camera still set up. We look forward to this experiment to serve everyone in our ACIM community.
Note: starting today, RMMC will continue with the 11:00 am gatherings as before, and will also add a second Gathering in the afternoon that will emphasize in-person participation at the center in Denver.
11:00 AM to Noon (Mountain Time)
Sunday Gathering I:
Via ZOOM (emphasis) and in-person at the RMMC.
Topic: Lesson 121 – Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
ACIM references: (ACIM, W-121)
Facilitated by Ron Grow
… Contributed during this first session by Rudi and Kris Florian:
Forgiveness:
As defined in the American Heritage Dictionary:
- To give up resentment against or stop wanting to punish (someone) for an offense or fault; pardon.
- To relent in being angry or wishing to exact punishment for (an offense or fault).
SYNONYMS: forgive, pardon, excuse, condone
These verbs mean to refrain from imposing punishment on an offender or demanding satisfaction for an offense. The first three can be used as conventional ways of offering an apology. More strictly, to forgive is to grant pardon without harboring resentment. Pardon more strongly implies a release from the liability for or penalty entailed by an offense. To excuse is to pass over a mistake or fault without demanding punishment or redress. To condone is to overlook an offense, usually a serious one, and often suggest tacit forgiveness.
As defined in A Course in Miracles:
“Forgiveness is for God and toward God but not of Him. It is impossible to think of anything He created that could need forgiveness. Forgiveness, then, is an illusion, but because of its purpose, which is the Holy Spirit’s, it has one difference. Unlike all other illusions it leads away from error and not towards it.”(C-3.1:1-4)
“The face of Christ has to be seen before the memory of God can return. The reason is obvious. Seeing the face of Christ involves perception. No one can look on knowledge. But the face of Christ is the great symbol of forgiveness. It is salvation. It is the symbol of the real world. Whoever looks on this no longer sees the world.”(C-3.4:1-8)
“Now let a new perception come to me. — The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything.“(W-pII.313.h/1:4-5)
“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 that 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.”(W-pII.1.1:1-6)
“To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is selective remembering, based not on your selection.”(T-17.III.1:1-3)
“Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction; a way in which the unknowing can bridge the gap between their perception and the truth.”(C-3.2:1)
“Illusion makes illusion. Except one. Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest. — Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold. But this is where illusions end. Forgiveness is the end of dreams because it is a dream of waking.”(W-pI.198.2:8-10/3:1-4)
“What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do 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.”(W-pI.122.1:1-6/2:1)
“How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself reflected there. Now you are sinless and behold your sinlessness.”(C-3.8:1-2)
- to be guided by the Holy Spirit to perceive differently.
- to see the Face of Christ in everyone.
- to behold that nothing really happened in truth.
- to overlook; to see no error or sin.
- to accept all without judgment.
- to behold the truth about yourself.
- to be still and wait and quietly do nothing.
NEW!!! 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM (Mountain Time)
Sunday Gathering II:
IN PERSON at the RMMC (emphasis) and via zoom.
Topic: Lesson 122 – Forgiveness offers everything I want.
ACIM references: (ACIM, W-122)
Facilitated by Ron Grow