The plans you make for safety all are laid within the future, where you cannot plan.

No purpose has been given it as yet, and what will happen has as yet no cause.

Who can predict effects without a cause?

And who could fear effects unless he thought they had been caused, and judged disastrous now?

Belief in sin arouses fear, and like its cause, is looking forward; looking back, but overlooking what is here and now.

Yet only here and now its cause must be, if its effects already have been judged as fearful. And in overlooking this, is it (cause) protected and kept separate from healing.

For a miracle is now. It stands already here, in present grace, within the only interval of time which sin and fear have overlooked, but which is all there is to time.