My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 288 for October 13, 2024. Let me forget my brother’s past today.

Let me forget my brother’s past today.

* IMAGINE!

* That is EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING NOW or has ever happened or EVER WILL HAPPEN while he believes in separation from God and the consequences of that idea.

1. This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal.

* I do not particularly like the term “goal” being used here.

* I can see why throughout my young adult years it was all about ‘goal setting.’ That was the vehicle that I was taught to use to manuever through life.

²I cannot come to You without my brother.

* Jesus cannot come to the God, the Father, without the REST of the Sonship that is Christ.

* This is managed through the complete forgiveness of the belief in separation in the Atonement.

³And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me.

* To know God, the Father Who is my Source, I must recognize that you created all that is as one entity.

* It might take looking at those two sentences a time or two to understand that they are saying the same thing.

⁴My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You.

* This is only in the sense that he forgives the error of separation as you do. In this respect Jesus could be said to be ‘leading us’ to God because he has chosen to forgive the idea of belief in separation from God and all that is ‘first.’ Then again, we understand that time itself has no meaning but, hopefully, you get the idea.

⁵His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone.

⁶Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You.

* This is where ‘holding a grudge’ can really harm us in our relationship with Father.

⁷My brother is my savior.

* Yes, because he needs to forgive the idea of separation just as you do.

⁸Let me not attack the savior You have given me.

* I am in the process of learning not to get caught up into a misunderstanding or any form of ‘attack story.’

⁹But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

* We were told that Name is Love as defined by God, the Father, not the ego/confusion of separation.

2. Forgive me, then, today.

²And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. (wholeness, one with all that is)

³He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.

* I can step away and breathe and let God’s Presence and Witness pour over me and send Love once more to the brother who is part of who I am as a part of the Son of God in the Presence of Father in Heaven.

(ACIM, W-288.1:1–2:3)

Till next time, God bless, debi.