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There
is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not
"harder" or
"bigger" than another. They are all the same.
All expressions of love are maximal.
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Miracles
as such do not matter. The only thing that matters is their
Source, which is far beyond evaluation.
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Miracles
occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is
the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that
comes from love is a miracle.
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All
miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. His Voice
will direct you very specifically. You will be told all you
need to know.
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Miracles
are habits, and should be involuntary. They should not be
under conscious control. Consciously selected miracles can be misguided.
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Miracles
are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.
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Miracles
are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.
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Miracles
are healing because they supply a lack; they are performed by those
who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.
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Miracles
are a kind of exchange. Like all expressions of love, which
are always miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses the
physical laws. They bring more love both to the giver and
the receiver.
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The
use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding
of their purpose.
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Prayer
is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of
the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received,
and through miracles love is expressed.
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Miracles
are thoughts. Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level
of experience, or the higher or spiritual level of experience.
One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual.
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Miracles
are both beginnings and endings, and so they alter the temporal order.
They are always affirmation of rebirth, which seem to go back but
really go forward. They undo the past in the present, and thus
release the future.
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Miracles
bear witness to truth. They are convincing because they arise
from conviction. Without conviction they deteriorate into
magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive; or rather, the
uncreative use of mind.
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Each
day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to
enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus
a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when
it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
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Miracles
are teaching devices for demonstrating it it as blessed to give as
to receive. They simultaneously increase the strength of the
giver and supply strength to the receiver.
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Miracles
transcend the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility,
away from the bodily level. That is why they heal.
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A
miracle is a service. It is the maximal service you can render
to another. It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself.
You recognize your own and your neighbor's worth simultaneously.
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Miracles
make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation because the
Sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles therefore
reflect the laws of eternity, not of time.
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Miracles
reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar
of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing
power of the miracle.
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Miracles
are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept
God's forgiveness by extending it to others.
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Miracles
are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness
can hide. You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see
does not exist. This leads to a denial of spiritual sight.
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Miracles
rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective.
This is healing because sickness comes from confusing the levels.
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Miracles
enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made
sickness and death yourself; and can therefore abolish both. You
are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator.
Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only
the creations of light are real.
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Miracles
are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed,
is the Atonement. Atonement works all the time and in all the
dimensions of time.
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Miracles
represent freedom from fear. "Atoning" means "undoing".
The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.
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A
miracle is a universal blessing from God through me (J.C.) to all my brothers.
It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.
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Miracles
are a way of earning release from fear. Revelation induces a
state in which fear has already been abolished. Miracles are
thus a means and revelation is an end.
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Miracles
praise God through you. They praise Him by honoring His
creations, affirming their perfection. They heal because they
deny body-identification and affirm spirit-identification.
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By
recognizing spirit, miracles adjust the levels of perception and
show them in proper alignment. This places spirit at the center,
where it can communicate directly.
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Miracles
should inspire gratitude, not awe. You should thank God for
what you really are. The children of God are holy and the
miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost.
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I
(J.C.) inspire all miracles, which are really intercessions.
They intercede for your holiness and make your perceptions holy.
By placing you beyond the physical laws they raise you into the
sphere of celestial order. In this order you are perfect.
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miracles
honor you because you are lovable. They dispel illusions about
yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for
your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing
your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.
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Miracles
restore the mind to its fullness. By atoning for lack they
establish perfect protection. The spirit's strength leaves no
room for intrusions.
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Miracles
are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects.
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Miracles
are examples of right thinking, aligning your perceptions with truth
as God created it.
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A
miracle is a correction introduced into false thinking by me (J.C.).
It acts as a catalyst, breaking up erroneous perception and
recognizing it properly. This places you under the Atonement
principle, where perception is healed. Until this has occurred,
knowledge of the Divine Order is impossible.
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The
Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles. He recognizes both
God's creations and your illusions. He separates the true from
the false by His ability to perceive totally rather than selectively.
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The
miracle dissolves error because the Holy Spirit identifies error as false
or unreal. This is the same as saying that by perceiving
light, darkness automatically disappears.
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The
miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother and mine. It is
a way of perceiving the universal mark of God.
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Wholeness
is the perceptual content of miracles. They thus correct, or atone
for, the faulty perception of lack.
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A
major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you
from your false sense of isolation, deprivation and lack.
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Miracles
arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.
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The
miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the
acceptance of His Atonement.
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A
miracle is never lost. It may touch many people you have not
even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you
are not even aware.
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The
Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. Miracles do
not involve this type of communication, because they are temporary
communication devices. When you return to your original form of
communication with God by direct revelation, the need for miracles is over.
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The
miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time.
It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under the usual
laws of time. In this sense it is timeless.
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The
miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for
controlling time. Only revelation transcends it, having nothing
to do with time at all.
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The
miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception.
It is a device for perception-correction, effective quite apart from
either the degree or the direction of the error. This is its
true indiscriminateness.
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The
miracles compares what you have made with creation, accepting what
is in accord with it as true, and rejecting what is out of accord as false.
