Thank you Susan.
Love
ia
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WHAT IS A MIRACLE?
A miraclee is a correction. I 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 the 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. Now they have
water. Now the world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring
up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality.
LESSON 341
"I can attack but my own sinlessness, And it is only that which keeps me safe."
"Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness
so dear and Deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your
Holiness. How pure, how safe, and holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile,
with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and
Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness
conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him."
Let us not, then, attack our sinlessness, for it contains the Word of God to us.
And in its kind reflection we are saved.
Love
Sorry to hear about your father's 'passing' ia, wishing you all love, peace & comfort
LESSON 342
"I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me."
"I thank You Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I
made. It is not real. And You have given me the means to prove its
unreality to me. The key is in my hand, and I reached the door
beyond which lies the end of dreams. I stand before the gate of
Heaven, wondering if I should enter it and be at home. Let me not
wait again today. Let me forgive all things, and let Creation be as
You would have it be and as it is. Le me remember that I am Your
Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing
light of truth, as memory of Your returns to me."
Brother, forgive me now. I come to you to take you home with
me. And as we go, the world goes with us on our way to God.
Love
LESSON 343
"I am not asked to make a sacrifice
To find the mercy and the peace of God."
"The end of suffering can not be loss. The gift of everything can
be but gain. You only give. You never taka away. And You created
me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as
You. I, too, must give. And so all things are given unto me forever
and forever. As I was created I remain. Your Son can make no
sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing
You. I am complete because I am Your Son. I cannot lose, for I can
only give, and everything is mine eternally."
The mercy and the peace of God are free. Salvation has no cost. It
is a gift that must be freely given and received. And it is this that we
would learn today.
Love
Thank you Tim for your short answer ;-)
I have felt father´s child like awe that he is still alive :-)
Your answer did open up so much in me that tears did invade me, the only thing what did spoil my happiness was my sister,
I did show her your answer the first reaction, she was interesting because she thought it was to father, but when it was to me,
she said, I do not understand a word, and then she did not want to listen to the song at all, she went to kitchen to do something
but listen.....she did not understand my tears what was of joy over your answer, thank you Tim.
Father is in child like ave :-)
Love
ia
LESSON 344
"Today I learn the law of love; that what
I give my brother is my gift to me."
"This is Your law, my Father, not my own. I have understood
what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself
alone. And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I
found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. Who
can share a dream? And what can an illusion offer me? Yet he
whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on
earth. Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven´s
treasures, which alone are real. Thus is the law of love fulfilled.
And thus Your Son arises and returns to You."
How near we are to one another, as we go to God. How near is
He to us. How Close the ending of the dream of sin, and the
redemption of the Son of God.
Love