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7 What is a miracle? A dream as well. But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.
The miracle is part of the dream, but it is the corrective device given us to undo the dream. Once we are awake we won’t need miracles, because there will be nothing to undo, nothing that needs a miracle. But for now the miracle is essential. Miracles facilitate a change of mind, which of course is the only change we need. Once the mind changes, the world reflects that change. There is no point in trying to change the world to convince the mind to change because it doesn’t work that way.
However, as the mind changes the world seems to provide all the help we need to complete that change. I looks as if the right people, the right books, the perfect ideas are placed in our path so that they will be there as we need them. It reminds me of those video games my kids play. As they move deeper and deeper into the game all sorts of tools appear. The higher the level they achieve the more tools and the more powerful the tools.
This help appears as we are ready for it. It will do no good if we don’t understand that it is a tool, or that it is for us. But it will absolutely be there when we need it. All we have to do is accept it. It helps very much if we simply play the game without feeling guilt for every wrong turn. If my kids felt guilty every time they chose the wrong path or every time their character was killed and they had to start again from level 1, they would quickly stop playing the game and find something else to do. When we feel guilty about the dark thoughts in our mind, or our failure to accept healing the first time we ask, then we get discouraged from playing, too.
Fear is also a deterrent. If my kids were truly afraid at every turn in the game, if they believed the bad guy jumping from behind the bush was going to cause them real harm, they would find a friendlier game to play. If I become afraid to make a mistake or I believe there are real and painful consequences when I fail to accept my help and my miracle, I would become discouraged and maybe get stuck in place, unable to move back and afraid to move forward.
The thing that helped me with fear is the understanding that it is not real. It can’t be real because fear is not in God. I made it up. This understanding has not completely ended fear in my mind, but it has helped tremendously and I fully expect a miracle to heal my mind completely as I am ready. In the meantime I have no guilt about the fear. That wasn’t always true, but it is now and, oh my, what a difference that makes.
I can’t believe how easy it was to step out of guilt. I kept teaching this, but failing to accept it fully for myself. But as the Manual for Teachers says, the teachers of God are not perfect, but they teach perfection over and over until they learn it. I had learned it, but failed to realize the game was over, so I needed a tool, a helper to shake me awake. Because I was ready, the helper appeared.
Now when I have a thought that says I am vulnerable, have been attacked, or am in danger of being attacked; that I am a victim to circumstances or persons; that I am lonely, afraid, in pain, or suffering in any way, I see the thought for what it is, an impersonal call for healing, and I gladly offer it to the Holy Spirit to receive that miracle on behalf of the Sonship. This is how the miracle works to undo the dream.
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