Thank you for this wonderful Lift and something we can work with this weekend and all the time. All the Lifts are great and we can really benefit much from all of them..

Thanks Julie. I agree this time4thinkers ecumenical project is excellent. It's really making me sit up and think, and I hope act, radically. And it's for everyone, not a specific age-range. http://time4thinkers.com/blog/the-radical-acts/

Many thanks Julie for sharing your own experience with these words "I forgive". It illustrates that we are all on our own paths in the joyous journey towards total spiritual understanding, when we finally realize there is nothing to forgive! "O wake and hear the angel-song/ That bids all discord cease,/ From pain and sorrow, doubt and fear,/ It brings us sweet release;/ And so our hearts find peace." (Christian Science Hymnal #9).

Nice to hear your voice, Julie - Forgiving is not easy, of oneself nor others, but I will try to follow and forgive - a situation that doesn't want to yield, I suspect is because I find it difficult to forgive. Thanks for the 'lift'!

Very important. Thank you.

Julie, thank you for this wonderful Lift this morning!
Debbie Phillips

what a beautiful way to start the day! thanks for sharing, Julie!

Thanks for this inspiring and thoughtful message on forgiveness. There's a poem by Ginny Luedeman titled "Self-forgiveness" (Sentinel, July 18, 2005) that I pray with daily. It ends with:
I forgive all my yesterday's
visions, unclear,
And hear my God telling me,
"Child, you are dear."
Sometimes forgiving ourselves can be the most difficult and I have found this poem most helpful.

Mantener el pensamiento radicalmente enfocado en la Verdad del Amor divino puede parecer dificil cuando estamos en alguna circunstancia que lo humano parece tener preponderancia.
Por motivo de estar en recuperación mi hermana se encuertra conmigo y su atención por medio de la medicina para mi ha sido un dasafío muy grande ya que cuando tengo error sólo recibo tratamiento basado en la ayuda de practicista o por el propio estudio y conocimiento de como debemos tratar al error y que la Ciencia Cristiana me ha dado.
A pesar de ello ha sido dificil mantener mi pensamiento como dice Eddy:" En lo bello lo puro y lo bueno"
Pero esa es nuestra tarea mantenernos radicalmente en el pensamiento espiritual y no permitir que nos atrapa ninguna cosa ajena al sentir a Cristo en cualquier circunstancia aún aquella que parezca aflitiva no sólo por el error de la enfermedad sino y principalmente para que no nos devíe del propósito de erradicar y mantener fuera de nosotros todo lo ajeno a Dios.

Pero armas tenemos para hacerlo las que nos ha dado el conocimiento que nada hay fuera de Dios y que si nos mantenemos firmes dejando que Dios obre no poniendo nada de nosotros en la firmeza que da el Amor aún lo que parece más complejo, lo ajeno tambien se endereza en armonía. Parafraséando a Eddy: Puede suceder que estamos hospedando Un ángel sin saberlo.

Muchas gracias Julie, hospedamos ángeles mucho más frecuentemente de lo que nos damos cuenta.

Thank you Julie for this thought provoking morning lift. I have listened to it three times already and I have shared it with my niece who was sitting right by me. We both agreed that it was a beautiful way to start the day: forgiving not only others but ourselves so that we can feel at peace.

Julie, Thank you. I thought of forgiving myself. For seeing myself less than what God sees. Thank you for this eye opener!

Thank you, Julie! What a wonderful way of sharing God's ideas!

Wonderful, Julie. I love this example of following Jesus' humility that is radical and so needed in our world today if we ever hope to see it transformed for the better one indiividual radical thought and act at a time. Te me, this is what Christian Science is all about ... challenging the mental conventions that would justify a limited sense of our capacity for good as children of God. Thanks a lot.

Thank you, Julie. Forgiveness is certainly central to Christianity, and to Christian Science. This is much needed today.

Just one comment: WOW!

I love that you show HOW to forgive, by replacing the lie about the sin with the truth about the so called sinner/sin. It's always about going to God for information about ourselves and others, isn't it? Practical and profound lift. I too think Radical Acts is an amazing journey in following the Master, Christ Jesus. Deeply grateful to the Lift team and TMCyouth team. .

Striking reminder of the penetrating, transformative power of Jesus' message for all of us. I sometimes forget that this power is accessible always. "I stand at the door and knock..." and his presence is among and within us if we have "the eyes to see and ears to hear."
I thank you, Julie, and the entire production staff for sharing and producing these inspirational messages.

what a wonderful idea, Julie ! As Pat in #12 says quite an eye-opener! One that I too, will try to practice as I go through the day. "I forgive" a really humbling thought when one thinks of the many opportunities to forgive those with whom we come in contact each day. Thanks you Julie for bringing this to our attention!

Thank you Julie for your inspiring message. I have thought only in terms of forgiving the person, not the act of the offence committed against me and truly that is what must be eradicated. By forgiving arrogance, God shows the beauty of strength of true humility. I love your Lift. Peace, love and joy to you.

Great lift!
Thank you so much!

Just what I needed to hear this morning....thanks Julie.

What a great Lift, Julie, Thank you for the homework over the weekend and on into next week! I still think about your man on the corner apologising, and passers-by assuring him "That's OK."
That's one of the best thing about this time of my life, the willingness to forgive, And there's quite a list! And we could'nt even start without asking our loving Father-Mother God to show us how, and why, and whom, It certainly is a work in progress, and something we won't get finished in a hurry. I do hope there'll be some updates in the coming weeks.
Thank you Nate and the never sleeping team; the BoL and lecturers; and our band of worthy Lifters ready for every task.

Thank you for reminding me of something that happened while I was taking Class Instruction. I had the wonderful experience to attend with my dad. The first assignment that was given to the class was not to criticize anyone for 24 hours. That included those drivers that were not expressing what my dad and I thought they should .... and much more. It was not easy but at least we had each other to "remind" us when the other would slip. The next day we were introduced to our second assignment, to repeat the first. It has been a struggle to repeat those first assignments for every day. But the struggle is getting easier.

Thank you, Julie. It is so important to do this daily.
The poem by Ginny Luedeman mentioned by Lori in CA---could we see it in its entirety?

Self-forgiveness

By Ginny Luedeman

From the July 18, 2005 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel

No moments of failure,
when something was lost.

No foolish decisions,
when treasures were tossed.

I didn't mess up,
and forget God is here.

I didn't make choices,
that made good disappear.

I live in the care
and the love of God's grace.

There's no way I can move
to a lesser loved place.

My keeping is not
in the wisdom of man.

But always secure,
in God's spiritual plan.

I forgive all my yesterday's
visions, unclear.

And hear my God telling me,
"Child, you are dear."

—Ginny Luedeman

A wonderful way to start my day! Thank you, Julie.

Understanding that humility and the ever presence of God's power and infinite intelligence is indispensable to learning to forgive "70 x 70 times" eases the struggle to forgive.
Thanks Julie, you enriched my understanding of forgivenss, and expanded my scope of practicing it. God bless you.

Thank you thank you. Just what needed right now. I will keep this thought of forgiveness in the front of my mind and heart today.

Thanks for the lift, Julie. The comments reminded me how hard it can be to forgive. But we can stop being haunted by the past when we take a moment-by-moment stand that God, good, is all-powerful and always present.

Thank you so much, Julie. i recall reading an article awhile back in which an employee hears the president of the compnay discussing with a manager all the employee's faults and the impending firing on Friday. The employee turned his attention away from the firing, and toward working for God. His week was filled with gratitude for the opportunity to do God's work. When Friday arrived and the employee was called into the president's office. He had barely crossed the threshhold before he heard words of appreciation and even the words that he would receive a raise and a promotion. This story reminds me of Mary Baker Eddy's admonition that we revise and expunge the past. For me, real healing comes when the past is removed from thought. The material illusion is given no power. It is nothing. God, good, is the only reality. Also, I consider Science and Health p. 497:9

Thank you, Julie, for this wonderful Lift on forgiving - ourselves and others - so important for our spiritual growth and progress!

Thanks, Julie, for “More radical forgiveness … ‘I forgive’… instead of ‘licking my wounds’ … truly forgiving not just that person but the sin … I could ask God to help me … I could forgive myself for all the moments when I had failed to be my best self, my real self …” I relate in some way to every Lift; but, today’s Lift could have begun with “Dear nela...” :-) Yesterday was an unusual day for me. I was surprised, as in “”ambushed!” by some tough challenges, for which I was not spiritually prepared. “I had failed to be my best self, my real self.” Today? Better. But I was a bit tempted to begin “licking my wounds” – just a little. Instead, today will be an “I forgive” day. Them. Me. I have already proved so many times before yesterday the power of prayer and responding in and with Love. The upside to yesterday, is that it revealed my need to be more alert to ongoing spiritual preparedness, so that I can prove the power of Good more consistently and effortlessly. Whatever. I’m not going to “stay stuck” in some self-imposed stronghold. Beginning today, I’m going to make every day an “I forgive” day, beginning with myself by going first to God for help. Thanks soooooo much, Julie, for this morning’s “wake up” call.

Thank you Julie,

It is always good to be able to go that extra mile after FOREGIVING, that is to RECIEVE.

What in heavens name is this man talking about one may say.

Well it is to RECIEVE whatever that person place or thing is giving out. because everything has been created by our Father-Mother God and must be good.
It is so simple when we have that child like thought, but not that childish thought.

All have a wonderful adventure,

Love in Christ

Peter Reichl-Cunningham CS.

Julie THANK YOU!!! this is humble, deep, radical -- for ourselves and for the rest of the world, including the people we know best . I HAVE BEEN trying to do the radical act of taking the beam out of my own eye...and this one goes with it!!!!

So much talk about forgiving others, but what about oneself. AH!, I hardly see that. I ask God, "Forgive me for seeing matter. Or Forgive me for not forgiving others." Sometimes one has to forgive oneself in order to be able to forgive others.

Gracias y gracias a los comentarios en español

Thank you Julie for sharing your personal experience. I am encouraged by this lift and will start today to be more aware of my thinking towards each situation and how I handle it. Forgiveness is another form of Loving and I am convinced this is our number one priority in Life.

Gracias y gracias a los comentarios en español

Awesome!

Thank you Julie, "Forgiveness" excellent advice.

THANK YOU!!!!!

Your lift certainly reinforces the fact that God does send us the angels that we need. Last evening I became angry over a posting on a relative's Facebook page. My initial reaction was to post a comment that would have been unloving, selfish and just wrong. I listened to the message "don't do that, that's not who you are." Then this beautiful lift. The lesson sermon this week about Christ Jesus is filled with love and I remembered that and said "I can do that." If the Christ forgives and loves me unconditionally, I can excpect to do the same for everyone who crosses my path. Sometimes not an easy task, but one well worth the effort. Thank you again.

Now that is going beneath the surface, plumbing the depths, living the Christly command to the fullest. And it gave you a great example for us today! So many thanks!

Mary Baker Eddy gave us this amazing admonition: "Let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error: self-will, self-love, self-justification."

This sounds hard--and it sometimes feels nigh impossible--but it leads to indescribable freedom!!

Being able to move forward unemcumbered is a gift I've received from forgiveness (thanks, #34 Peter!). By seeing the impossibility of harm in or to God's creation (using spiritual sense, in contradiction to material sense testimony), we CAN go forward.

Love to all, today, and may all resentments be dissolved in our humility and divine Love's precious power and dear control.

Forgiving is transformative to the forgiver and the one forgiven, even more so when one sees through to the allness of Love where there is nothing to forgive. Thank you for this precious reminder and the call to follow Jesus’ teachings.

Thank you Julie! A wonderful topic - never outworn. And thanks to Alabama for the clear statement of truth. We Recognize, Reject, Replace, and Rejoice. It is mortal mind or evil we are recognizing and replacing with Truth and Love. Then the evil or error vanishes into "its native nothingness". Then forgivenss becomes easier. No power there to stir up trouble.

Thank you,‭ ‬Julie.‭ ‬Forgiveness isn't easy for me, though‭ ‬I have good intentions,‭ Traffic cut-offs don't‬ tempt me.‭ ‬It's shadows of incidents over the years,‭ ‬that creep to the surface after I think I've forgiven.‭ As ‬to forgiving self,‭ ‬no matter how much I try,‭ ‬I find not only specific memories,‭ ‬but also a general sense of guilt not tied to any certain thought or act from the past.‭ ‬Mostly not all that sinful,‭ ‬but my conscience,‭ ‬developed from childhood, accepted blame for any innocent or intended wrong.‭ ‬Whether I heal this fully yet,‭ ‬or not,‭ ‬I need to work on forgiveness for self and others more. Like rust,‭ ‬damaging at worst,‭ ‬and unsightly at best,‭ ‬every "inch" of past I get cleaned and polished is significant improvement,‭ ‬leaving more Christly shine where it is needed. What is usually described as an attractive person,‭ is "only skin deep", as the saying goes. True attraction, isn't physical looks, but belongs to a person who shines forth the light of Christ to the extent that others are drawn to the Christlike qualities. Instead of working to "forgive", it is working to 'give forth" qualities reflecting divine Love that melts away negative memories. That is radical healing and fore-giving. #27 Alabama, You're right! #31 Melody, Thanks!

I find it helps me to forgive when I think of the words which I learned at some time in Christian Science:- "When error speaks, nothing has been said."

And that deeper forgiving is in truly in seeing through any appearance that there is, ever has been, or ever will be power and ability in ignorance or selfishness to appear as a part of the character of any of God's ideas. Sometimes it's a real challenge to stand guard over consciousness and refuse such suggestions from slipping in. I had a hard time seeing those Enron execs steal the money from their loyal employees' retirement savings, of whom my husband's cousin was one, and lavish it on themselves with huge salaries and parties, leaving those who had worked sometimes for 40 years without retirement funds.

When we can finally see that each idea is tenderly protected by and gets his abundance from his Father-Mother God AND that no one can be made to believe that he or she can gain from trying to take another's good, we can finally feel that the government is truly on "His shoulder," and our sense of peace and order can be restored. Even the so-called guilty parties can redeem their false identification with a grasping, selfish mentality in this forgiveness and spiritual honesty that corrects our thinking and governs the affairs of men and angels.

Julie, thank you for sharing this important message.

Great lift and call to action... I'll start this today! Thank you!

Thank you Julie.

Hi Julie,
Thank you for this wonderful blessing. Recently, my boyfriend called me inconsiderate and arrogant. It was hurtful. However, when listening to your lift and that of other lifts on forgiveness, I'm realizing that it is A.M. NOT God speaking to me. Thus, I must "banish" any hurt feelings and realize the "nothingness" of the error or offense. Do you agree?
xoxo

Thank you Julie and daily lift team.

Thank you, Julia! This is just what I needed this morning and you spoke of forgiveness in a way that will keep me thinking on the right path as I go forward today. Thank you so much!

Perfect, Julie. Thank you!

Julie,
Thanks for the reminder that, "I forgive" is a truly healing phrase...! Just think, every time we say "I forgive"...we express and reflect the Divine Love that heals all...!

Thank you.

thanks to the commentors. I too want to react to a facebook insult to my personhood, I grieved and felt impotent for not "responding", sticking up for myself. Thank you to no.40. Asante. for I know I am not alone now. I also want to do the right thing, and know not to take offense is the right direction. I am a work in progress.

I also think it is important to think of forgiving oneself. Some of us have a struggle in that

Thanks Julia for this message of transformation through, of, by, from forgiveness. WOW!

Thank you for a much needed and timely lift.

Thank you, Julie, and h o w needed!

Thank you for this needed reminder. Forgiving has been less of a struggle for me since my sister shared her immediate reaction to statements or actions of others that others may see as offensive, "I choose not to be offended." That reaction is based on Miscellaneous Writings, 223:24, Taking Offense. This enables one to decrease the need to forgive, because you have not let the action take root. That doesn't mean I have no need to forgive or be forgiven, as sometimes error attempts to "sneak" one by. We must be ever alert! Thanks to the Daily Lift Team and all the commenters

Thanks, Julie, for this important Lift. I'm going to practice this radical act today!

Just one word.....BEAUTIFUL!

Thank you for such a beautiful reminder of forgiving all, including ourselfs.

Thank you.

Thank you Julie -
This is something I know I can learn from and
practice.
Mortal mind might like us to dwell on something somebody said- but it's only a distraction. While listening for God's
voice and guidance-- we are focused and
secure- loved and cared for. Not offended
but aware of grace and beauty. Not
agitated- or reactive but gentle and unruffled.
This is our (my) true nature.
Thanks again-

Hi Julie,

I haven't listen to the daily lift today yet, saving it for a treat. But I wanted to let you know, last Wednesday, I listened to over and over "Flashdark" daily lift. A church member had made 2 CD's of the daily lifts. One got broke in my car, but the other one I listened to and was reminded of the daily lift you made called, "flash dark". It is so good, because it talks of darkness, however I didn't feel dark but nervous over an up coming event. And I replaced darkness with nervousness and that daily lift heals.

So, this morning dashing out the door, my husband told me you were the daily lift giver today, and a warmness filled my heart, as I knew I had to tell you the "flash dark" heals anxiety.

Also, I look forward to listening to this daily lift too. Just right now our reading room does Christian Science audio chats, so that is what I need to listen right this moment. And those are wonderful treats. Yesterday was Lyle Young CSB and Arthuro CS on Mexico and the issues that are needed for us to pray on. So very helpful and clear.

Thank you so very much, Julie. Important...I will prectice more of this; I think we all need to do so.

Thank you for this most meaningful explanation of forgivness...especially being able to forgive one's self.To me ,it is the most difficult.Your lift has truly helped.

So helpful....I am so grateful for your example and love!

A wonderful start for the day here on the west coast, a gentle reminder to watch and pray...to be alert, always....... Love is always at hand, ever present. What is better than this?

Julie;
How the purpose and action of pure forgiveness must be inherent within each true Christian follower.
Following the dictum, the command , of Christ, is the comprehensive way to demonstrate a large
segment of his gospel. I experience that command when moving to approach issues raised within the branch church . The wisdom and love of forgiveness is the gold standard.

How marvelous! Easy! and Doable! Thanks, Joycebelle

When I reacted to unprofessional behaviour with anger, I gave it power. Today's Lift has lifted me to forgive both of us.

Thank you!

And we all need to do a lot of forgiving for the shooting that just happened at the Empire State Building in NYC. Let's send our Love and Prayers to All concerned there! Thanks!

Thank you js (46.) for sharing that helpful statement!

Elisabeth Groß, Germany, Munich
Thank you very much for this massage. Jesus showed us the way and we have to follow him. Forgiveness is most importent for all men.
Elisabeth Groß, CS

Beautiful ideas, Julie! I'll follow them.

Great ideas to emulate!

Hi, JAS ((#51) -

Yes, I do agree that this accusation is entirely impersonal - that you can take the sting right out by seeing that it's the accuser (mortal mind) speaking and not your boyfriend. I loved what #47 said - "When error speaks, nothing has been said." What is God saying about you? That you are His beloved child in whom He is well pleased!

Special thanks to #25 for the idea of going 24 hours without criticizing. I'm taking up that challenge, and it's not easy. But I know it builds "spiritual muscle"! Thanks to all for the wonderful comments.

Thank you for this inspiration and teaching us to follow the Christ in all our affairs. What a blessing it is to have radical changes to our spiritual beings and loving God for the inspiring acts of Jesus daily.

Thank you Julie for this daily lift. Just what I needed. As I was frustrated seeing an individual, who hurts. "I forgive" is the answer. Maybe, someday it will be like "hopscotch" and so easy.

Meanwhile, I agree #76 about the shooting at Empire State building. Thank you Bev.

Hello, #68, just want you to know how happy I am that you enjoyed the "flash dark" lift. That thought has helped me so many times through the years to see that evil - under whatever mask - is not a thing or a power. This has helped me today to avoid being overwhelmed by reports of violence. Hatred is a "flashdark" - no thing, no mind, no person, no power.

Thank you very much for your Daily Lift

Perfect timing

Hi to all,
Dear Sandy (4) I got a great deal out of the testimony in the Sept. Journal on forgiveness. title: "Forgiveness Brings Healing" by Gordon Meyers. The man was so clear on how to do it. He said he found it hard to forgive those who were closest to him but had done something that he found, "cutting".

His answer was to see that the goodness in these people that he had originally seen was not gone but was still there and would never change.

l am a bit late for yesterday's lift but wanted to give thanks for this lift and for all of you who have kept me close during my summer away from home. The Lifer Family is with me everywhere!

8-24-2012-Julie Ward-More Radical Forgiveness
As time goes by we tend to forget some things, put them in the back of our minds.
Thinking on Jesus admonition to forgive up to 70 times 7, I am reminded to forgive someone who influenced so badly on my life to make me act just like him.
But this was a lie, it wasn’t me, God saw through me and pull me out of that situation.
Today I can say that I forgave... 70 times 7...
ESPAÑOL
Con el paso del tiempo tendemos a olvidar algunas cosas, las ponemos al fondo de nuestra mente.
Pensando en la advertencia de Jesús de perdonar hasta 70 veces 7, me acordé de perdonar a alguien que influyó tan mal en mi vida hasta hacerme actuar como él.
Pero era una mentira, no era yo, Dios vio a través de mí y me sacó de esa situación.
Hoy puedo decir que yo perdoné ... 70 veces 7 ...

I LOVE this!! Thank you for sharing!!

Thankyou, this message leads me to the cross where Jesus said "Forgive them for they know not what they have done". Very important, and on going adventure in all lives. He was offended, that we may not be.To give love, truth, and light is forgiveness.

Thank you very much Julie. Just what I needed to hear.

Thank you so much for this beautiful Lift. How much better life would be if we all lived with radical forgiveness every day. I will work to do my part, thanks to your inspiring words!

Thank you for this Daily Lift on "Forgiving" and also for the thoughtful comments shared. Forgiving is "God's grace" alive in our hearts, minds, and actions.

MERCI Julie ! Je voudrais dire à tous ceux qui se sont sentis blessés par des propos ou actes malveillants #57Kath et 41Asante, que l'on peut progresser sur ce point. Pendant de nombreuses années, je ne pouvais pas supporter la méchanceté des autres contre moi. Cela me rendait malade jusqu'à me déclencher une arythmie et faiblesse cardiaque par chute du taux de potassium. Ce jour-là je compris qu'il fallait que je me 'renforce' psychologiquement. Avec l'aide de Dieu (messages angéliques), je compris que JE NE POUVAIS ÊTRE BLESSEE QUE SI JE L'ACCEPTAIS. C'était moi qui n'avais pas la bonne attitude, la bonne réaction. Je refusai donc l'offense, fis comme si rien n'était arrivé, n'y prêtai aucune attention, mis une barrière mentale entre moi et l'agresseur. Je compris aussi que c'était mon égo qui me faisait réagir, qu'en fait, je n'étais pas suffisamment humble : je n'admettais pas la critique et de ne pas être appréciée par les autres. Je ne fus plus jamais malheureuse ni malade après avoir été confrontée à la méchanceté, indifférente aux critiques injustifiées. Plus tard, grâce à la CS, je fis des pas supplémentaires en comprenant qu'il n'y avait en réalité, aucune offense à pardonner si nous voyons l'offenseur tel qu'il est en Dieu, enfant parfait de Dieu et que je pouvais faire mieux en le "guérissant" de son mauvais comportement. Quand Jésus disait de "présenter l'autre joue, celle qui n'avait pas été frappée", je pense qu'il voulait dire qu'il n'y avait pas eu d'offense!

What an amazingly wonderful and perfect message this was. It touched on so many seemingly innocent circumstances that actually needed some attention. Sometimes we justify our casual attitude about something, when, in reality, by allowing God's Love to soften and dissolve our human approach, it instantly takes us to our True nature. Now, that's time well-worth spent. Thank you for the inspiration.

Julie- thank you. It IS harder than I thought. But SO worth it!

This was most timely for me! -- wakened this morning to the sound of dripping water! The elderly couple in the apartment above had for the THIRD time in the last few years left a faucet with the water running, and it had flooded not only their apartment but ours plus the one on the floor below us! I'm grateful to say that this afternoon when the wife was leaving as I returned home (from Reading Room duty!), I could tell her that I loved her -- we are ALL God's children! She nodded and smiled in agreement. This couple is originally from India and it is difficult for me to understand their English. I have often prayed to feel forgiveness for a previous episode where there was MUCH damage done to my furnishings -- grateful for the progress!
B.J.

Thank you. This Lift & its comments have proved to be very important in my prayers this weekend. I want to thank individuals, but there are so many and it's Sunday, so I'll just echo how much this Lift family means to me and keeps me and how I feel "lifted" yet "grounded" at the same time, deepening prayers for self and prayers for the national and world situations. Thank you, Julie. I re-listened to several of your Lifts, enjoying them all, but looking for "your man on the corner apologising, and passers-by assuring him "That's OK." that #22 Margaret mentioned - maybe that's from a lecture?

Tracy, thanks so much for your comment. I feel the same way about our Daily Lift Community - my great extended family that I haven't yet met in person. Margaret is referring to my lecture "You're Not Guilty." You can go right to it by clicking on "watch a lecture" just beside my picture at the top of this page.

Dear Julie,

Thank you for this fine message, beautifully given.

Very recently I woke up one morning in a great deal of pain.
It came to me to forgive everyone I could think of forgiving.
It seemed unusual at the time, but I was healed of the
pain immediately, and went on about my day.

With love,
Susan Alexander

Reflecting on the message that you share with all of us I cannot help but identify it with the Spirit of Christ that is guiding you. I am learning to forgive myself and others even more every day. Thanks Julie.

En español

Al reflexionar sobre el mensaje que compartes con todos nosotros no puedo menos que identificarlo con el Espiritu del Cristo que te está guiando. Estoy aprendiendo a perdonarme a mí mismo y a los demás aún más cada día. Gracias Julie.

Julie, thank you so much for replying! I look forward to listening to that lecture soon! Love, Tracy

Just think what we could do if we radically followed ALL of Jesus' teachings daily! Thank you so much for this wonderful message.

Julie,
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I have been reading your lift every day now since it appeared. It is so helpful, but I have a hard time sometimes believing that saying, "I forgive you" means that this is really true. Do I need to do it again and again for past grievances? We hear that as long as you remember something, you have not yet forgiven the incident. Maybe it just becomes dimmer each time I revisit the forgiving. Thank you again.

"Forgive them for they know not what they do" the attitude of gratitude.. Love heals! Thank you for the wonderful reminder!

Dear Susie (#105), I don't mean to imply that merely saying those words brings about healing, although it may be a very good start. It indicates that you have opened your heart and admitted that you're willing to forgive. Next, we separate the error from the person. That's why it helps me to think about forgiving arrogance or thoughtlessness rather than just, "I forgive Aunt Nellybelle." Finally - and most importantly - we reduce the sin to its common denominator, zero. To me, this includes knowing WHY the sin has no power or reality. That comes from finding the power and presence of the spiritual fact right where that sin seems to be. (This would relate to seeing humility right where arrogance appears, or seeing the presence of infinite Love right where fear seems to be.) This does require persistence! Sometimes I've struggled for weeks to really feel that forgiveness, and not just say it. But the victory does come. You can count on it.

When my 2nd wife died from a medical mistake done in one of the biggest hospitals in the city where I live, I found myself hating the entire medical profession and the people in it. Even the 30 or so years of studying C/S couldn't prevent me from this wrong attitude. It wasn't until I myself got so sick and monthly visits to the Hospital, that I realized that these Doctors and Nurses were only doing what they thought was the best way to heal. One can't hate a good motive. I realized then to get my thought of God back on track. I had to forgive myself first to have thought erroneously, then the medical Practioners. They weren't out to kill or maim, but to heal.