A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It
merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It
undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the
function of forgiveness. Thus it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the
way for the return of timelessness and love's awakening, for fear must slip
away under the gentle remedy it gives.
A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received as one. And
thus it illustrates the law of truth the world does not obey, because it fails
entirely to understand its ways. A miracle inverts perception which was
upside-down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest.
Now is perception open to the truth. Now is forgiveness seen as justified.
Forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they
look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands corrected in His sight, and
what was meant to curse has come to bless. Each lily of forgiveness offers all
the world the silent miracle of love. And each is laid before the Word of God
upon the universal altar to Creator and creation, in the Light of perfect purity
and endless joy.
The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind has
been made ready to conceive of what it cannot see and does not understand. Yet
faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really there.
And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and show it rested on a
world more real than what you saw before; a world redeemed from what you thought
you saw.
Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world,
where starved and thirsty creatures came to die. Now they have water. Now the
world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is
born can never die, for what has life has immortality.
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