What is a Miracle? A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love's awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings. A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received as one. And thus it illustrates the law of truth the world does not obey, because it fails entirely to understand its ways.
A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. Now
is perception open to truth.
Now is forgiveness seen as justified. Forgiveness
is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver
them to all they look upon in mercy and in love.
Perception stands corrected in His sight, and
what was meant to curse has come to bless. Each
lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent
miracle of love. And each is laid before the Word
of God, upon the universal altar to Creator and
creation in the light of perfect purity and endless
joy.
The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind has been made ready to conceive of what it cannot see, and does not understand. Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really there. And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and show it rested on a world more real than what you saw before; a world redeemed from what you thought was there. Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die.
And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality. |
Workbook For Students Special Topics - Part 2 What
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