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Study of Text, Chapter 12, VII.Looking Within, P 1. 3-22-16

VII. Looking Within, P 1

1 Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guidance, for learning is invisible and what has been learned can be recognized only by its results. Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more and more situations. You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations. There is no situation to which miracles do not apply, and by applying them to all situations you will gain the real world. For in this holy perception you will be made whole, and the Atonement will radiate from your acceptance of it for yourself to everyone the Holy Spirit sends you for your blessing. In every child of God His blessing lies, and in your blessing of the children of God is His blessing to you.

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The first thing I always have to do when reading about miracles is to separate in my mind the difference between a miracle and a demonstration of a miracle, or the physical manifestation of a miracle. For instance, I have been working on my mind in regards to the body size. I want this body to be smaller. I want to turn around and look into the mirror and see a smaller me. Now that would be a miracle, right?

No. That would simply be the physical manifestation of a miracle. The miracle would be the change in the mind that allowed a change in the world. Here is the miracle I am really looking for. I want to look in the mirror and see a body I use for only one purpose and that is to be the communication device the Holy Spirit needs it to be. I want to see a body that is used only to light the world with love and innocence. Now that would be a miracle, and one I expect!

When I reach my expectation and I use this body only as the vehicle for extending love, will it be a skinny body? How about a pretty body while we are at it? A healthy body, an energetic body? I have noticed a shift in my thoughts about the body as I have continued my practice of miracle minded thinking. I notice that there is still the ego desire to use the body for its own purposes, but I also notice an equal if not greater desire to relinquish the body to the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said that he would take the body and the ego if we want him to. He will do this so that we could see their unimportance. This is what I want more than I want to be smaller or prettier or anything else. I want to be free of these ego “wantings.” I want to be free of all that stands between me and my God. I want to be free of this veil that hides the light I am from my own awareness and so keeps me from being the light of the world.

This is the miracle I want. I want to be single-minded in all things, to know only one desire, one purpose, one function. From this miracle all others will flow. I don’t know how this will manifest within the world, and I am ready, perhaps fully ready, to disregard all ego desires for a particular manifestation. I know that I will not be asked to sacrifice, but how that occurs is not something I need to even think about.

I am ready for this, not because I think I am guilty for what the ego mind wants, but because the ego desires distract me from what truly matters to me. As I fully release the body and the ego to Jesus, I become free of anxiety about them. What happens at that point is not my business, and I discover that while this is not complete in me, I am losing interest in directing the miracle. I will for the miracle of a changed mind, and I allow for its manifestation in whatever way it unfolds. And amen to that!

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