VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother, P 6
6 Miracles have no place in eternity, because they are reparative. Yet while you still need healing, your miracles are the only witnesses to your reality that you can recognize. You cannot perform a miracle for yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. In time the giving comes first, though they are simultaneous in eternity, where they cannot be separated. When you have learned they are the same, the need for time is over.
Journal
I understand that miracles are for here where we need them. In eternity there is no need for miracles. I also understand that miracles are our only witness to our reality that we can recognize. In reality we are the Christ, the Son of God, whole and complete, powerful and eternal. In the illusion we are little separate people, frail and vulnerable, destined to suffer and die. Through miracles we experience ourselves outside of time and space, and outside the laws of the world. In this way, we begin to remember what we really are.
One time I had a problem that was causing me excruciating pain and I needed the pain to go away while I attended a workshop. I gave my trust that this could happen. The world says that if we have a sickness or disease, there are steps to take. We need to see a doctor, get medicine, maybe have a procedure done. It all takes time, and sometimes it works, and sometimes not.
But I believe in miracles. I believe that it is God’s Will that I not suffer. At the time this happened, my belief was compromised by my doubt, but it was strong enough to ask for pain relief while I flew to this workshop, receive what I needed from it, and flew home. The pain immediately stopped, and didn’t start again until my plain touched down at my home airport.
It was a miracle. I might have allowed the problem to be healed completely, but as I said, my trust was not unopposed. But I will never ever completely believe that I am victim to sickness again. The miracle witnessed to my reality. Things like this have happened often since. Each time they do, my trust grows because I see that I am not what I thought I was.
I have had other experiences. I have been very afraid, or very angry, certain I was justified in my feelings, unable to pull myself out of it. I have asked for a miracle, and seen the feelings dispelled instantly, leaving barely a memory of their presence, and sometimes not even that. Where did those thoughts go? Where did those strong emotions go? Back into the nothingness from which they came. It was miraculous because that isn’t the way it happens in the world we made.
I didn’t need to wrestle with the thoughts and feelings. I didn’t need to let them play out. I didn’t need to change the circumstances or receive an apology, or change anything in the world. I didn’t need to use logic and positive thought or any of the other mental tricks I have learned over the years in order to experience peace. I didn’t need to understand. All I needed to do was to desire peace more than I desired the upsetting thoughts and the miracle occurred. All that upset me was simply gone and I was at peace. The peaceful mind was witness to my true reality.
The many miracles I experienced were done through me not by me. They required only that I desired them, and it was done according to my desire. Through the miracle I gave my acceptance and I received that which I desired. In eternity this is one step, not two. They occur simultaneously. Here, in time, I am learning to accept so that I can receive, and ultimately, that giving and receiving are the same thing. Maybe that moment of knowing is the ultimate miracle, and time ceases.
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