 So I did think the title somewhere I read was about forgiveness, so I wanted to bring that back again. And I shared yesterday that that was a real clear message to me. This path, being about forgiveness, was what I really needed in my life. And learning about the idea of forgiving what never really happened and all of that. And learning about, you know, it looks like I'm forgiving other people out there, coming up in the freeway, my husband, whatever. And um. And um. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. And but really learning that it's all about forgiving ourselves is the biggest challenge. So when I'm seeming to be forgiving outside of myself, it's coming back to me. And then I start to experience more of that peace and more of that joy and more of that I forgive. And then I just do want to acknowledge my husband. Maybe it was when I was gripped in fear at one time, he kept saying, forgive the situation, forgive the situation. And I was like, what do you mean? I had to forgive a person. And he taught me about forgiving the situation. I found a lot of power in that. So I'm just hoping maybe you guys talk a little bit more about forgiveness. Yeah. That's a great question. Because we've come from, whether we came from Catholicism or whatever we came from in this world, usually when people talk about forgiveness or forgiving, what people either did to you, they shouldn't have done, or they didn't do what they should have done. So there's a lot of forgiveness. And the Bible talks about forgiveness 70 times 7, implying that you really have to be aiming for something that will probably take practice in terms of linear time. And also, this idea that you forgive your brother for what he did not do to you, that that's something none of us were ever taught. It's like, what? Say what? What do you mean? Are you supposed to do this in ostrich, burying the head and the sand? Is this the kind of forgiveness? But it's actually going into a healing in mind and a transformation. And it comes in flashes. I know for a male, it's all thoughts is a big part of it. Because as long as we see everything on the timeline and we have these memories, we were just talking at the break about working with patients who get arrested in a traumatic memory, elderly people, that just relive the same traumatic memory over and over, like Groundhog Bay, like a loop, just keeps looping around and around. For most people, they do have recurring patterns, whether they do past life regressions or whether they just look at this so-called lifetime. There are certain patterns that come back, but it's really helpful to start to see that those patterns are really thoughts and beliefs, not events on the timeline. So that idea of forgiving situations, it's only the ego that thinks in situations. It's only the ego that thinks in terms of separate people. And at one point, this Holy Spirit said to me that situational thinking is the problem. We believe that there's these situations in our life, and they have beginnings and endings. And yet, from a higher perspective, it all just melts together in a simultaneous way. And yet, we have to loosen from this linear way that we've been perceiving everything in, because the ego invented past, present, and future on a timeline. It took me a while before I grew up in my biological mother. I was a history teacher. And when we took history, the history teacher would draw on the chalkboard a long line, and it would put the little increments and put a little dot and say, this is the present, and go back into history. And then the future, the arrows. And all of us grew up believing that the present moment was in between the past and the future. That's the way it seems. So finally, I got into a course of miracles, and Jesus said, no, that's not what the present is. It's not between the past and the future. That's pretty radical. Talk about assumptions. That's the most basic assumption. Imagine putting the dot somewhere else. He said, just like, all right, it's not between the past and the future. Then tell me where is the present? He says, the present is before time was. So you have to look at the grammar. The present is before time was. Before Abraham was, I am. He was teaching it 2,000 years ago that we're going to find the present moment. We have to go at it a whole different way, because as long as we try to do it from the old construct, we're always going to find that the present just seems to be this little ineffectual little blip. And what does forgiveness mean? It happened before. How do we erase what happened? So that's very important, because when we start to open truly to the present, we have to have a whole new way of thinking about time. And that's what the early workbook lessons are about. He even says in there, we need to introduce new time ideas. And that's at the early part of the workbook lessons. So Jesus is saying, the fundamental nature of how you perceive things is all based on linear time. And the ego invented linear time to keep you guilty, to keep you trapped, and say, oh, you've got a long and guilty past. The ego says, no doubt about that. Don't try to evade the guilty past. And the present moment that it invented between the past and the future is this little blip. The ego says, you can't do much. It's such a tiny blip. You can't really, it's ineffectual. You have no power. The past is just going to roll on over that blip into the future. You're guilty in the past. You're going to be guilty in the future. And you're condemned to death. And it's not surprising how Christians end up talking about hellfire and burning in hell, because linear time was constructed to keep alive hellfire, the idea that you're just condemned to eternal damnation. And time seems to be pretty tight vice on the deceived mind. So once we start to realize that the power of the present moment is the power of decision, it's also our power of trust that Armel's been talking a lot about. That's a decision in the present moment. And anything we are experiencing is just a decision in the present moment. And people say, what about karma? Is it there are things that we've done in the past, like in a karmic sense that we have to undo? Well, John Lennon wrote the song Instant Karma. And he was teaching us that we actually have the power of decision to release ourself from all of the past and live in an eternal state of bliss. But we have to train our mind to do that. And really, we always are talking about the present moment. It's not something that happened in the past that's making you feel the way you are. It's just choosing to hold on to the ego and hold on to the past. It covers over the true present moment and keeps you in a delusion as if the same pattern seemed to repeat like Groundhog Day. Phil keeps stepping in the pothole. He keeps putting his foot in the water until one day arrives when he's walking along and he starts to step in it and he goes and he hops over it. And as soon as he hops over it, then every day after that, he's training his mind. He's aware of the whole and he doesn't step in. And that's kind of how it goes with us as well. Yeah. There's one thing coming to my mind about Instant Karma. It always makes me mind when I hear that because truly separation is a present decision. It's not something that happens to you and that you're a victim of. It's really a decision that is made in the mind and it's a present decision. It's not like it happened 2,000 years ago, 5,000 years ago. It's in the moment. And so Instant Karma is the perfect way to describe what karma can be because what it would be is that when the decision is made to be separated in the moment, then there's a whole world it comes about. And therefore karma exists in that moment. But it's instant because if you choose again and you choose to realign with the spirit, karma is gone. It was just an idea. It was just a thought. And I just have this friend coming to my mind because I just worked closely with him for several weeks in last summer, last spring. And his story was there's something missing, something that I didn't do in the past and I need to do it now. I need to kind of run and do it now to make sure that I'm not gonna miss something and then I can accept the atonement. And that's always the story that's going on. It's like, there's something that I missed or that I messed up or I was wrong about or I did wrong and now I need to cope for that. And I need to pay somewhere to pay for that. And once I would have paid my debt to the spirit, then I can accept the atonement. But it's just a story. The thing is that any time you accept, you choose separation instead of the spirit, then the story of what you think you are, the story of your life just comes about. And for him it was there's something missing. I missed something.