LESSON 134, Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

LESSON 134, Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

From A Course in Miracles Experience by Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne

May 20, 2026 · 12 min · Season 1 · Episode 134

About this episode

This episode explores the true meaning of forgiveness and its relationship to truth and illusions.

LESSON 134 Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Let us review the meaning of “forgive,” for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something that entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In such a view, forgiveness must be seen as mere eccentric folly, and this course appear to rest salvation on a whim. This twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily cor­rected, when you can accept the fact that pardon is not asked for what is true. It must be limited to what is false. It is irrelevant to everything except illusions. Truth is God’s creation, and to pardon that is meaningless. All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love. Does this need pardon? How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign? The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions. You conceive of pardon as a vain attempt to look past what is there; to overlook the truth, in an unfounded effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true. This twisted viewpoint but reflects the hold that the idea of sin…

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Host: Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne

Topics covered

  • forgiveness
  • perception
  • truth
  • illusions
  • spirituality

Keywords

  • forgiveness
  • truth
  • illusions
  • spiritual growth
  • A Course in Miracles

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