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