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The Responsibility of a Miracle Worker

…the one responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. ³The teacher of God is a miracle worker because he gives the gifts he has received. ⁴Yet he must first accept them. ⁵He need do no more, nor is there more that he could do. ⁶By accepting healing he can give it. ⁷If he doubts this, let him remember Who gave the gift and Who received it. ⁸Thus is his doubt corrected. ⁹He thought the gifts of God could be withdrawn. ¹⁰That was a mistake, but hardly one to stay with. ¹¹And so the teacher of God can only recognize it for what it is, and let it be corrected for him.

One of the most difficult temptations to recognize is that to doubt a healing because of the appearance of continuing symptoms is a mistake in the form of lack of trust. ²As such it is an attack. ³Usually it seems to be just the opposite. ⁴It does appear unreasonable at first to be told that continued concern is attack. ⁵It has all the appearances of love. ⁶Yet love without trust is impossible, and doubt and trust cannot coexist. ⁷And hate must be the opposite of love, regardless of the form it takes. ⁸Doubt not the gift and it is impossible to doubt its result. ⁹This is the certainty that gives God’s teachers the power to be miracle workers, for they have put their trust in Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-7.3:2–4:9)

While we identify with the body, we see our brothers as bodies. This perception interferes with our ability to bring Love to a brother who is calling for Love. We may recognize his call and offer Love from our hearts outwardly or within our mind.

But if we believe our brother is a body we will be tempted to look for the body to show signs that the Love has been received. We may look for a change in behavior or physical symptoms. But this is not the level at which healing happens. All healing is of the mind. To look for outward symptoms is a mistake stemming from our misidentification with a separate self.

The most important step in bringing Love to the world is to accept It for ourselves. As we let go of a mistaken belief about our identity, we become more open to God’s Love. Certainty comes with the acceptance of the changelessness of Love.

The more we are willing to accept Love as our Identity, the more effective we are as a miracle worker. We demonstrate through our acceptance that loss and lack are impossible. As we acknowledge the presence of Love in our brother, we support him in His awakening to his true Self. Whether or not he manifests signs of accepting Love is immaterial. The Love we see in him is given him by the Holy Spirit and saved for him until he is ready to accept It.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us clear away our mistaken doubts about the Love we are as God’s Son.

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