When we’re in that compulsive thinking – running the same thoughts over and over, trying to figure out how to make someone understand – we’ve forgotten something essential:
Correction is not our function.
Jesus says this clearly in Chapter 27 of A Course in Miracles: “Correction is not your function. It belongs to one who knows of fairness, not of guilt. If you assume correction’s role, you lose the function of forgiveness.”
Our function is forgiveness. Our function is to Love and be loved.
Our function is to open our hearts and minds to the Higher Holy Spirit Self.
True forgiveness is letting go of the meaning we’ve made of things. It’s releasing our attachment to our interpretation of events, situations, everything from the past. That is our function – to let go of our attachments to how we see things, the perspective that is through the dark lens of the past.
When we think our job is to correct others – to punish them, to explain to them what they’re doing wrong, to get them to change – we’ve made them into our victim. We see them as separate. We’ve lost sight of the unity of all life.
The insanity of the ego-identified person sounds like this: “If I could just explain it the right way, they’d understand. If I could just get them to see what they’re doing to me, they’d change.”
But what’s really going on is they’re not agreeing with us. And we keep explaining it again and again, thinking they just don’t understand. How many millions of times did I enter into that rodeo? SO many. And now I don’t need to.
When we go around and around with someone like that, it’s not understanding we’re after. It’s control.
Jesus goes on to say: “No one can forgive until he learns correction is but to forgive, and never to accuse.”
The only correction that’s needed is in our own mind – letting go of the attachment to the meaning we made of things.
When we see that correction and pardon are the same thing, then we also know that the Holy Spirit’s mind and ours are One. Wouldn’t that be so much more fulfilling than endlessly trying to correct and punish?
In my Masterful Living Program, we practice true forgiveness as our function – and the Peace that comes from it is extraordinary.
And our Letting Go of A Person Deep Dive Workshop on March 21 is designed for exactly this: releasing the person we keep trying to correct and choosing our real function instead.
What a relief!
