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By the Grace of God the Pain Was Gone — When I Forgave

by Rev. Tarra Bennett, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

June 21st 2021. It’s midday and suddenly I am struck with an intense toothache, excruciatingly painful. It lasted all that day and into the next day and the next day. Going to a dentist is not something I like to do. However by now I have come to realize this intense ache is not going away. Since moving east ten years ago I had not put in place a dentist for myself.

I contacted a local friend for a recommendation on the best dentist in the province. The dentist they suggested was a six hour drive from where I live. However I am willing to drive that distance for a dentist I trust.

I finally got up the courage to call the dentist’s office. The earliest date they could book me an appointment was for August 6th, almost six weeks before I would get relief from the pain.

Daily I continued to endure the discomfort and the pain.

It’s now July 12th. As soon as I woke up, the first thing I felt was the excruciating pain in my mouth. I decided I’d had enough, I can’t take this pain anymore. I have to call a dentist, any dentist will do at this point. I decided I would call around today and find a dentist that would see me on an emergency basis as soon as I finished my morning ACIM Study Group Class at 10:30 a.m.

The lesson for the day was Lesson 193, “All things are lessons God would have me learn.”

It’s 8 a.m. I read the lesson.

“Forgive and you will see this differently. I will forgive and this will disappear.”

It states in paragraph 6 of Lesson 193:

“Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? ²Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? ³These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you. ⁴You see them rightly when you hold these words in full awareness, and do not forget these words apply to everything you see or any brother looks upon amiss.”

I checked in with myself to see if there was anything coming up for freedom, anything to be forgiven and low and behold there was.

This lesson I remembered clearly through out my meditation: “I will forgive, and this will disappear. To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words, I will forgive, and this will disappear.”

I continued to repeat those words and I forgave.

I meditated for 20 minutes in silence on the lesson.

After the meditation I prepared for my morning ACIM Study Group. It finished at 10:30 a.m. and as I was about to call a dentist I realized the pain was gone.

I was in awe. In awe and in praise of God.

I was so happy, so relieved and elated to experience the Grace of God. It was a validation of my belief, my faith and trust in God and what the Course teaches me daily when I forgive.

By the Grace of God I was healed, the pain stopped.

As I write this memo it’s July 22nd the pain has not returned.

“Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. ²Do not forget this. ³The Love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to another, because vision is still so dim. ⁴You can use your body best to help you enlarge your perception so you can achieve real vision, of which the physical eye is incapable. ⁵Learning to do this is the body’s only true usefulness.”

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