Dropping the Wall of Fear

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Day, and welcome to Entitled to Miracles, and this is your host, Reverend Deb Phelps. Anne I'm glad to be with you, he said. Once again, as we empower ourselves for miracles, right? And one of the greatest miracles is forgiveness. And so today I've called the show Dropping the Walls of Fear. And what's been on my mind lately is what I've been hearing in the news. In reference to our president and the wall that wants to be built separating us from our brothers.

And certainly that calls for forgiveness, right? And I'll tell ya. I've been looking at the course and what came to me specifically was lesson 134. And that lesson is let me perceive forgiveness as it is. So first he wants us to review, well, you know, what what is forgiveness? What is forgiveness? He says let's review The meaning of forgiveness or to forgive. Because here in the world we have distorted it.

You've distorted it. Um if you've been studying the course for some time, you know that. It's a different way of looking at forgiveness. And here he starts to describe the Those different ways. And if you've read the Song of Prayer, which is a supplement to A Course of Miracles, you'll know about the forgiveness to destroy. That's what some of what he speaks of here, and uh forgive is apt to be distorted and be perceived as something that entails an unfair sacrifice.

righteous wrath, a gift unjustified, and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. I bestow this forgiveness on you. Because I am the better person. That's how it goes in the past, right? You probably know this, right? You've probably been on the other end of it, maybe you've been on the giving end of it as well.

But what we want to do is look at what is true forgiveness, and he has a practice at the end of this lesson that we'll do together, so that we are practicing dropping those walls of fear. Want to drop those walls of fear because that's what's keeping us separate is the intense fear. So Jesus wants us to correct the twisted view of forgiveness that we've had. He wants us to do that. Because he wants us to go to truth, right?

What happened in truth is that nothing happened. In truth, in God's realm, in God's creation, which you were created perfect, and in love and as love, etc. Nothing has occurred. It's hard to believe, right? When we're watching the news and the protests and and everything else going on, it's hard to believe that. That nothing has happened? But you see, in God's world nothing has occurred. So, how can I forgive? How can I forgive what's happening? I'm witnessing it all the time. It's in my face.

Well We can, my friends. And and that's what we're gonna do. Together. We're gonna do that together as we read along. Uh like I said, I'm in lesson 134 and I recommend that you pull that out. If you haven't looked at it a while, let's look at it together.

And so he tells us in paragraph three that the major difficulty that we find in genuine forgiveness on our part is that we still believe we must forgive the truth and not illusions. Right. It's the other way around. We forgive the illusions. We bring the illusions to the truth. We bring the darkness to the light. We bring the fear to the love, not the other way around. We're not overlooking the truth, we're overlooking what we think has occurred. We're coming from that premise that

within our mind of from love, right? We're what teacher am I listening to? I y you know I say that all the time. What teacher am I listening to? What teacher am I going to join with? What am I for? I've used that in recent episodes not only in this podcast, but my own podcast through Miracles One is that what are we for? What are we for, my friends? If we're for peace, well then let's not make war in our mind. We're so twisted in our viewpoint.

In the sense that we want to keep focusing on what's wrong. Right? What has been done, maybe done to us, whether whether it's you know, uh United States, the worldly kind of thing, um, or your own personal. You may have some personal Um Things that are really hard for you to look at. People that have been in your life that have maybe seemingly destroyed you has said horrible things. abused you in some way. Well, how can I look on this and see that it's not real?

It's our choice in how we look upon it. Now, certainly I've had all those things myself in my life. Right? I mean I'm struggling with what's going on in our country. I'm I have things that come up from the past. That hurt my heart? But it's remembering that and you know I say this What do I want? Setting the goal section, I always remind you of that. Setting the goal. What do I want to come of this? What is it for?

Right. I want peace. And you see, using that as my goal and what I want to focus on, that is where I go. Okay, I want peace. This thought is not bringing me peace. What I'm seeing on CNN is not bringing me peace. This memory is not bringing me peace. Okay. Well Let me perceive forgiveness as it is, I need forgiveness. I need to overlook, I need to let go and see things with the Holy Spirit, with Jesus, with Christ vision, whatever you want to call it.

And because we think our own sins are real, when we say, Oh, I need to pardon someone, I need to forgive someone We're thinking it's a deception, and he tells us this. And in our mind, our ego mind is saying, Well, no, this we this really did occur. It's a sin. And we think it's impossible. And so forgiveness has no place. I need to make the other person wrong so I can be right.

' Well each time we do that, that's layering another brick in the wall. Think a pink floor. All in all, it's just another brick in the wall that we keep building to our monument of fear. It's not about what's going on outside of us, folks. It's going on in our own mind we are building the monument to fear. Yes, of course, do those things that you feel guided to do from the pay place of peace and love.

You're gonna protest? Do it. Do it for peace. Do it for love. Do it for unity. And don't do it for separation. Right? We need to remember that and what we do. What mindset am I coming from? So if we believe it's sin, then the guilt is going to continue. And the guilt is what keeps us separated, it's what keeps us in this illusory So dropping the wall of fear is dropping the wall of guilt. and dropping the wall of separation.

It is sin's unreality, he tells us in paragraph six, that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief to those who offer it a quiet blessing where it is received. received, it does not countenance illusions, but collects them lightly with a little laugh, and gently lays them at the feet of truth, and there they disappear entirely.

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of this world. That's what it does. It sees that it's nothing. It looks straight through it. No And it says no, my brother, what you think is not the truth. And not only does it look on it, it looks on it, as he says, with quiet eyes, and merely says to them So this doesn't have to be a defiant statement, an angry statement. Very gently. No, this isn't the truth. No, this is not the truth.

And you see, we don't have to beat people over the head with the truth. We gently remind ourselves of the truth, and by reminding ourselves that's how we share it with others. Right, remember it's an in job. It's in my own mind. That's where I need to go. So even for me When when memories and such come up or I'm feeling guilty over something maybe I've I've done in the past, that sort of thing, oh my brother Deb. What you think is not the truth?

You are not this horrible corrupt being that you think you are. And neither is anyone else. And you see, if we want release and we want freedom We overlook what's there in the illusion. It opens the way to truth for us. Because now we're we're shedding the guilt. True forgiveness opens up the way for us. And you see, if we give that gift to someone else, we're opening the door for ourselves.

And so he goes on in paragraph nine, and he says There's a very simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it open wide and welcome. And so this is something to think about what he says next. He says when you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form. Do not allow your mind to dwell on what you think he did, for that is self deception and Ask instead. Are you ready? Would I accuse myself of doing this? Whoa, right? Would I accuse myself of doing this?

If we want to say that someone else is judgmental, are we not being judgmental ourselves? If we are saying that someone is angry and we're angry about it and we're protesting angrily We have to look within. Right. It's not about pointing the finger and blaming someone outside of ourselves. It's looking within and working on our own mind because then we can Outwardly come from a place of peace. We can still do what we need to do right? Run for office and

Heal our mind. Have a happy family, have a happy relationship, because first we've looked within. Right? So we have other choices. In truth there's only innocence. Only innocence. That's what the Holy Spirit judges. Boom! You're innocent. You're innocent. Everyone's innocent. So forgiveness is right there between illusions and truth. Between the world that we think we're seeing and everything that's happening in it? and the heaven that's beyond it. Hell, i. e. the guilt And the lawns of heaven.

And it's a bridge it's a bridge of love that brings us there. And this is how we start to wake up from the dream when we are using forgiveness to assist us. And so We don't have to fight. We don't have to slay the dragons that pursue us. And he says here, paragraph twelve, nor need he erect the heavy walls of stone and iron doors he thought would make him safe. We can keep building the tower. It's never going to make us safe if the fear and the guilt is within us. Right?

We don't need to erect the stone walls. We don't need to have that armor protecting our mind. Now instead we shed that armor, we we walk lightly And we see the light before us. But to do this we have to practice forgiveness. That's the only way. And so together we're going to practice what he says in this lesson, and he says today we're going to practice true forgiveness. Because he wants the time of our joining to be no more delayed than what it has.

For we would meet with our reality in freedom and in peace, our practising becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers. Right? We want to share this with everyone. This is our forgiveness march. We're marching for forgiveness. So so that we can accomplish this, we spend time with the Holy Spirit. He understands the meaning of forgiveness, and he's here to help us to learn it. So we ask of him to And say this to yourself: let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Then he says Choose one brother as he will direct and catalogue his sins as one by one they cross your mind. Be certain not to dwell on any of them. But realize that you are using his offenses, But to save the world from all ideas of sin, briefly consider all the evil things you thought o' him, and each time ask yourself would I condemn myself for doing this? So do that in your mind. Choose that person, whoever that may be, and do that. Reflect on that.

And each one that comes up each item. Would I accuse would I condemn myself for doing this? Would I condemn myself for doing this? Let him be freed from all those thoughts that you had. of his wrongness, of his sin, because now you're preparing yourself for the freedom. Keep practicing this. if you use your willingness and your honesty to look at those thoughts in your mind, what will happen in this practice is that you will feel

You're lifting up, you'll feel your heart lighten, you'll feel your mind lighten. He says you might even feel a lightning across your chest. and a sense of relief. Isn't that what we want right now? Especially if you've been upset about the current circumstances in our country? You want that sense of relief. You want that peace. And so then while you're doing this practice Allow yourself to be in the silence and to it just experience. Experience that release, that dropping of the wall of fear.

And everything that you laid upon that person But You will see that you've only been laying it upon yourself. We need each other on the way home. We need each other. And so he tells us to just keep practising this throughout the day. And there's going to be times you forget, and it's okay. But when you forget and you remember, he says, Let me perceive forgiveness as it is, would I accuse myself of doing this? I will not lay this chain upon myself.

Right here in lesson one hundred thirty four. So if you forget, and you make a judgment, you're watching CNN, let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Would I accuse myself of doing this? I will not lay this chain upon myself, said And in the end, and he leaves us with this one message and I just shared it a few moments ago. In everything you do remember this no one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter heaven by himself.

As I said, we need each other on the journey home. We enter into heaven together and We may not like that person, whoever that person is, we may not agree with their philosophy and ideas, but we need them to go home with. We need them. And that's why this practice of forgiveness let me perceive forgiveness as it is, this practice of true forgiveness is so vital and important. In your life not only right now, but in everything, every aspect of your life.

And so I offer it to you. You know, look at this lesson. Once again, it's lesson 134. Look at this lesson. And do the practice, but then also, you know, as I always like to say, take some time to reflect then on it too. You know, do some journaling on it. How can I use this in my life or how did I use this in my life today? How has it made a difference for me? You will reap such gifts and benefits because of it. So, my friends, forgiveness is it.

So if you're looking for a Course in Miracles resources, hey, we have them at Miracles One. So go to our website at www.miracles1.org. We have classes, we have a workbook class, study group. Lots of online resources for you, audios, videos, audios like this really, right? And lots of videos that I've done and Rev Paul has done over the years.

There's always something. There's always support that you can get. So just make sure you go to the website www.miracles1.org to get all you need there. And I'm glad and happy. to have those conversations with you. So once again, this is Rem Deb Phelps and this has been entitled to Miracles. And thank you for joining with me and as always I wish you peace. Namaste.

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