A Course in Miracles with Female Words Day 257 (September 14th)

Text reading: "The Justification for Forgiveness" and Lesson# 257 "Let me remember what my purpose is."What is Sin?Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body eyes, for what is there the sinless would behold? What need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else.The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself. Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change. And now the body serves a different aim for striving. What it seeks for now is chosen by the aim the mind has taken as replacement for the goal of self-deception. Truth can be its aim as well as lies. The senses then will seek instead for witnesses to what is true.Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the “proof” that what has no reality is real. Sin “proves” God’s Child is evil; timelessness must have an end; eternal life must die. And God Herself has lost the Child She loves, with but corruption to complete Herself, Her Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.A madwoman’s dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Child of God may play she has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little life that ends in death. But all the while her Mother shines on her, and loves her with an everlasting Love which her pretenses cannot change at all.How long, O Child of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged children’s toys? How soon will you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin. Creation is unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back? How long, O holy Child of God, how long?Happy practicing!