VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 10
10 Yet in this world your perfection is un-witnessed. God knows it, but you do not, and so you do not share His witness to it. Nor do you witness unto Him, for reality is witnessed to as one. God waits your witness to His Son and to Himself. The miracles you do on earth are lifted up to Heaven and to Him. They witness to what you do not know, and as they reach the gates of Heaven, God will open them. For never would He leave His Own beloved Son outside them, and beyond Himself.
Journal
God created me perfect and so perfect I am. Yet, as Jesus says in the first sentence, my perfection is un-witnessed in this world. Well, I get that! I find no witnesses to my perfection and that is the reason I often fall for the ego interpretation of things. I realize that my thoughts and actions and words witness to the ego thought system more than I would like, even now after all this time of study and practice. Even at my best, my perception witnesses to something truer, but now truth.
But God knows my perfection, so nothing has actually changed, and that is my salvation. It is our salvation. We do not share His witness to our perfection because reality can only be witnessed to as one. We still, in this world, see division and that is not one. What I see happening in my life and in the lives of others is a shift toward oneness. We do this through miracles.
We ask for another way to see and accept that vision, recognizing that the eyes do not show reality. Instead we trust the Holy Spirit’s Vision until that vision becomes our own. First the mind changes and then the changed mind projects that change onto the world, and miracles are made manifest. This is why we study this book, why it is called A Course in Miracles. Miracles matter, not the miracles themselves, but the love they represent. It is through performing miracles that we return our minds to reality and remember that we are the Sons of God.
Jesus says that the miracles we do on earth are lifted up to God and they witness to what we do not know. This is our path back home. The gates to Heaven are open to us, and the miracles we do here lead us to those gates and to the welcoming presence of God. Perhaps you think you have never performed a miracle but I bet that you have. Each time that you believe the ego and then change your mind and ask the Holy Spirit to heal your mind, you have an opportunity to change miraculously. All you need to do is accept that healing.
Sometimes the manifestation of the miracle is obvious, sometimes even astounding. But often the manifestation is subtle at first and perhaps not recognized. At those times it becomes clear only in retrospect as you review your life and recognize how much happier and more peaceful you are now, and know it is because you have been practicing what you are learning through A Course in Miracles. That is no small miracle. And it may be even more to it. It may be that when you came to a fork in the road, your past study and your past choices for God take you down a gentler path and you have saved a thousand years, even though you do not realize it.
I wonder if I decided today that I want the miracle, not as a possible outcome of a daily practice, but as a decision I make, how would that change things? What if I start the day asking the Holy Spirit what miracles He would have me perform today? I am going to do that. I am asking and expecting an answer. I am going to keep my mind and heart open so that I will recognize the answer when it comes to me.
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