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 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. (A Course in Miracles Workbook “What is a Miracle, W-pII.13.1;2:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 341 Insights.)
Anything that disturbs our peace must be based on a false perception that we mistakenly believe is true. When we bring our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perception in its place, we are welcoming the miracle. We are willing to see that our perception is not true. When what we believe is true is recognized as false, we freely let it go — we forgive.
The Holy Spirit’s gift of the miracle shows us that what we believed happened did not really occur except in a fantasy that is not real. It is this process that will free us from the fantasy world of fear and guilt to return to our eternal, changeless Home in Love. There is no greater gift that we could give ourselves. We are worth the practice.
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