A Course In Miracles - Forgiveness, the real thing.

It was sometime during that first year I was going through A Course In Miracles that I was visiting friends. It was getting late and I was going to be staying overnight in their guest room. Late as it was, one friend could stay up way past sleepiness and keep a conversation going. We talked about all kinds of things, life philosophies. We came around to the topics of forgiveness and heaven and hell.

I said, "Everyone is forgiven." This I knew. This was given to me as knowledge long before I read A Course In Miracles. The Course gives us this also. This came to me as the result of a personal experience, one that I've seldom told,

but I'll get to that story some other time.

My friend agreed. I added, "And everyone goes to heaven."

My friend agreed, again, and then there was a pause. In the quiet pause, I was thinking that maybe I could get to sleep now. That would be as close to heavenly as I could think of in that moment.

The pause in the conversation ended when my friend said, "But not killers, not murderers."

I remember I wanted to understand how or why he said that.

"That's too big, too bad," he added.

I said, "Why, are you afraid a murderer would kill again you when you got to heaven?"

He said, "Yes!"

In the next moment there was a healing. We both laughed as he saw the silliness of his thought of exceptions. We laughed and went each to our rooms and slept in the peace that a miracle had brought us.

Really, is there any thing too big or too bad that God could not forgive. Would God exclude anyone?

This little story became part of a workshop I gave in the mid 1980's and in talks I gave later.

 
Have you read about Aba Gail? This is the story of a woman whose daughter was murdered. Eight years after the murder Aba Gail had a revelation to forgive the person responsible for the act. She tells the story on the page linked below. It is a beautiful, heart touching story. Amidst so much nonsense in the world, this is the real thing.

Aba Gail's story, The Catherine Blount Foundation

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