The Holy Spirit takes the very device the ego made to protect itself and uses it to undo it. His devices can only be used for good. Don’t worry about results that may or may not be seen on the level of form. Be grateful for what forgiveness and the Holy Spirit are doing for you. By forgiving your brothers and sisters in the manner just described, you are rejoining with what you really are. You’re telling the world and the bodily images you see that their behavior can’t have any effect on you, and if they can’t have any effect on you, then they don’t really exist separately from you. Thus, there is no separation of any kind in reality —which brings us to the final major component of the attitude of forgiveness: Trust the Holy Spirit and choose His strength. The peace of the Holy Spirit will be given to you if you do your job. He will heal the larger, unconscious mind that is hidden from you, and give you His peace at the same time. This peace may not always come right away, and sometimes it will. Sometimes it may surprise you in the form of something happening that would usually upset you —except this time it doesn’t. All this will lead you to the Kingdom of Heaven, for along with the Holy Spirit, you are doing the work that leads to the condition of peace —which is the condition of the Kingdom. Forgiveness is actually preparing you to re-enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
~Gary Renard
The Disappearance of the Universe
Based on ACIM