A miracle is a correction. ²It does not create, nor really change at all. ³It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. ⁴It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. ⁵Thus [a miracle] stays within time’s limits. ⁶Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love’s awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings.
³A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. ⁴Now is perception open to the truth. ⁵Now is forgiveness seen as justified.
Forgiveness is the home of miracles. ²The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. ³Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. ⁴Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.13.1;2:3-5;3:1-4)
While we are invested in our belief in separation, our perceptions are so distorted that we cannot see the truth of Love’s presence. These distortions justify our fear and anger; our sense of loss and feelings of guilt.
The miracle clears the distortion. The reality of Love’s presence becomes clear. In this clarity, forgiveness is justified because we recognize our misperceptions are only errors. With the clarity that the miracle brings, the error is corrected. In this clarity we see that nothing has harmed or changed God’s Son. He remains Love and nothing else in His eternal union with His Creator.
We ask the Holy Spirit for His vision to help us experience the miracle that makes way for true forgiveness.
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