Lesson 122: Forgiveness offers everything I want. ACIM explained to a child (but for everybody)

Welcome to lesson 122 of our video series on A Course in Miracles, explained to a child (but for everybody)!

In this lesson, we explore the incredible gifts of forgiveness and how it can provide us with everything we truly desire in life, such as peace, happiness, safety, kindness, and more.

HERE'S THE TRANSCRIPT of LESSON 122:

Hi there! Let's explore the surprising truth of what we really want and how we can attain it today!

What could we desire that forgiveness cannot provide?
Do we yearn for peace? Forgiveness can offer that.
Do we crave happiness, a calm mind, a sense of purpose and worth, and beauty that transcends the world?
Do we seek safety and care?
Do we long for warmth, protection, a kindness that can never be hurt, and a comfort and rest so perfect it can never be disturbed?

Forgiveness can provide us with all of this and more.
It brightens our eyes when we wake up and fills us with joy to start the day.
It soothes our dreams while we sleep, and when we wake up, it gives us another day of happiness and peace.
All of this forgiveness offers us, and more.

Forgiveness lifts the veil that hides the face of Christ, allows us to recognize the Son of God, and clears our memory of all the negative thoughts that can cloud our minds.
What could we want that forgiveness cannot give?
What gifts are more valuable than those that forgiveness brings?

Why would we seek an answer other than the one that answers everything? Here is the perfect answer to all our imperfect questions, meaningless requests, halfhearted efforts to listen and trust. This is the answer! Let's not seek any other. We won't find one.

God's plan for our salvation cannot change and cannot fail. Let's be grateful for that! It stands before us like an open door, welcoming us and inviting us to come in and make ourselves at home – the home where we belong.

Will we remain outside while all of Heaven waits for us to enter?
Let's forgive and be forgiven. As we give, we will receive.
There is no plan for the salvation of the Son of God but this.
Here is the answer, and the answer is clear and plain, beyond deceit, powerful and majestic in its extremely simple truth.

Let's not wander aimlessly anymore! Let's accept salvation now! Let's accept the gift of God!
The world can give no gifts of any value to a mind that has received the gift of God.
God wants us to accept salvation now and to stop our illusions from hiding their nothingness from us.

Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and peace.
Forgiveness is the means that brings this peace into our lives.
A deep tranquility will fill our hearts as ancient truths arise in our awareness.
What we will remember cannot be described, yet forgiveness will offer it to us.

Remembering these gifts of forgiveness, we will practice today, with the hope and faith that today will be the day salvation will be ours.
We will eagerly and happily seek it because we have accepted the answer of Heaven, and now we have the key to no longer stay in the hell we created.

We will take fifteen minutes, morning and evening, to the search that will lead us to the end of hell.
Let's begin with hopefulness because we have reached the turning point where things will get easier.
The end of our journey is getting closer and closer.
We are near the appointed ending of the illusion.

As you start these practice periods, allow yourself to sink into happiness, for you will be offered the sure rewards of the answers to your questions.
Today, you will experience the peace forgiveness offers and the joy that comes with lifting the veil of illusion.

Before the light you will receive today, the world will fade until it disappears.
Then a new world will appear. You will see it, but you will have no words to describe it.
Now, let's walk into the light and receive the gifts that have been waiting for us since the beginning of time.

Forgiveness offers us everything we want.
Today, all we desire is given to us.
Let's not allow our gifts to slip away as we return to face the ever-changing and illusory world.
Instead, let's keep our gifts in our awareness, recognizing the changeless within the heart of change and the light of truth behind appearances.

Don't let your gifts go to waste today! Hold them firmly in your mind and do not forget them.
Try spending a minute every quarter of an hour to remind yourself of the preciousness of these gifts by repeating these words that have the power to hold these gifts in your awareness throughout the day:

"Forgiveness offers everything I want."
"Today I have accepted this as true."
"Today I have received the gifts of God."

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Don't forget to visit the ACIM website to read the original lesson 122: https://acim.org/acim/en/s/527.

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