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Deb Crouch's avatar

Thank you for this article.

I asked the Holy Spirit to help me learn to forgive and boy, my lesson popped up immediately.

I named my ego Sméagol, and he has been badgering me constantly to feel resentment and abandonment in a situation with my sister-in-law whom I have been friends with for a very long time.

I have a quote from the Course on my desk that says, …”Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself as unfairly treated. In this view you seek to find innocence that you do not share, but that is yours alone, and this at the cost of someone else’s guilt. “

This is definitely Sméagol‘a game plan. He says I can feel innocent if someone else is guilty. But I have to remember that we are both innocent!

In truth we are both blameless-beautiful-gentle-and kind.

Man, it’s been a real struggle to keep that in my mind and to ignore my old habits.

Please pray for me!

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suzy shepherd's avatar

Loved this today Sean and I especially loved this bit at the end "Start small: a bird at the feeder, a cloud in the sky. Give attention to it not as the judge of its value, its rights to be, or its reason for existence but as its "equal in God's Love" (T-31.II.7:1). Welcome it as the friend it is, and learn that all we have are friends, each an invitation to gaze beyond separation to our shared home in God."

I always try to remind myself that if I don't want to feel guilty then don't judge, the minute that I do that guilt hits me like a speeding train!

It is so important to learn to love everything that visits us throughout our day, the good news and the bad, the pain and the joy, the mayhem and the peace. So important to see them all as gifts and opportunities to remember the love that is always present when we choose to see it.

Thank you for reminding me to see the love everywhere today my friend.

Much Love Suzy x

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