My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 297 for October 22, 2024. Forgiveness is the only gift I give. *It is the Only Truth Here.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

* Yes, and do not be surprised when it is received by no one.

* You won’t ‘feel’ alone because you will know that there is no way that you could be. But you will not be able to communicate with a world that still believes in nothing instead of in God, the Original, Universal Creator/God/Father.

1. Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want.

* Ah, now let’s get REAL here! I would love to be able to share the Joy of Existence as well, which I GOT when I accepted the Atonement and offered forgiveness to All That Is.

* FORGIVENESS IS the ONLY THING I WANT out of the world of illusion!!!

* THAT has a whole different meaning to me. And where Jesus was trying to take us.

²And everything I give I give myself.

* In the world of illusion, or ‘the past,’ or that TIME when I thought I was separate I want only forgiveness because THAT would be the ONLY THING THAT I COULD RECEIVE that was even CLOSE to REALITY in God and as a part of His Son.

³This is salvation’s simple formula.

⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

* It is accepting the full forgiveness of the Atonement for oneself that is going to be our contribution to SALVATION for the WHOLE.

2. Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace.

* I take “Your grace” to be very close if not exactly like His REALITY.

²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity.

* AMEN.

(ACIM, W-297.1:1–2:2)

Till next time, God bless, debi.