Love Has Forgiven Me.

Is it necessary to be at the mercy of painful moods and feelings? It is not.
Is there a practical plan for escaping from attacks of depression, dismay, nervousness? There is.

Vernon Howard

God’s Love is the basis of forgiveness. Fear condemns and love forgives. Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. It is the means by which illusions disappear. “God is the Love in which I forgive you, [insert name]” put’s you in a position to forgive yourself. When you become aware of any kind of negative reaction to anyone, present or not, tell them silently: “God is the Love in which I forgive you.” God does not forgive because He has never condemned. And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself. Lesson 46

"Here’s a man who was told by a friend that there’s an enormous deep valley loaded with green, valuable, rich emeralds. So he wants to find some emeralds, get a little money, pay his bills. So he decides to go down into this immense valley with dark and mysterious and mists in it, decides to go down to hazard the journey in order to get the emeralds that he wants.

His friend said, 'Fine, go down there. You will find riches, but remember one thing. It is a hazardous place, but if I give you this one caution, it won’t be hazardous to you. It will be hazardous to those who don’t hear what I’m going to say. If you get down there and get lost, remember that they’re several paths out, but only one of them will do it. If you get lost, just find the right path. You’ll find it, and it’ll get you out of the deep, dark canyon, where there, oh yeah, where there are lots of savage beasts by the way, so be alert and aware at all times.'

Sounds like society, doesn’t it — savage beasts with no conscience, with no spiritual sympathy, only human sympathy, only sick sympathy which has a motive for reward in back of it, right?

Spiritual sympathy is quite another thing, and only, only God or a godly person is capable of it."

Vernon Howard

God is the Love with which I love myself God is the Love in which I am blessed.

I cannot be guilty because I am a Son of God.
I have already been forgiven.
No fear is possible in a mind beloved of God.
There is no need to attack because love has forgiven me.
Lesson 46

fORGIVING oTHERS

If you have truly forgiven someone, you will remember the incident, but will no longer feel the sting or hurt. This is the acid test of forgiveness. You must meet it psychologically and spiritual. Otherwise you are simple deceiving yourself. You are not practicing the art of true forgiveness.

To Understand All Is to Forgive All

Once you understand the creative law of your own mind, you stop blaming other people and conditions for making or marring your life. You realize that your own thoughts and feelings create your destiny. Furthermore, you are aware that externals are not the causes and conditioners of your life and your experiences. To think that others can mar your happiness, that you are the football of a cruel fate, that you must oppose and fight others for a living-all these ideas reveal their destructive nature once you understand that thoughts are things.
This principle is clearly set forth in the Bible:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 23:7; King James)
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Rev. Joseph Murphy