Day 159: I give the miracles I have received.

Before I begin, a moment of celebration: This is my 100th consecutive blog!  If this were a television series, it would be syndicated.

Alright, now to the juicy stuff...

A Course in Miracles outlines the principles of miracles in the first few pages of the text.  Here is a handful of those principles:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive.  They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and supply strength to the receiver.

Miracles transcend the body.  They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from the bodily level.  That is why they heal.

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.

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.

Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness.  Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others.

The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother and mine.  It is a way of perceiving the universal mark of God.

Simply put, a miracle is a shift in perception from fear to Love.  We are told in today's workbook lesson that all miracles have been given to us, but we cannot know we have received them until we give them to each other:

You understand that you are healed when you give healing.  You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive.  You recognize your brother in yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole.  There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you.  Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.

Remember that to Truly give is also to receive.  To receive then means that we must give as well.  This is a concept that is difficult to grasp at first, because it goes against the laws of this world.  Here, to give means that we no longer possess the thing we're giving.  But when we give the gifts of timeless value: Love, Joy, Peace and the Vision of All Life as One, we receive them back in magnitude.  That is our reminder for today.

We ourselves are miracles, for we ourselves are Love.  Love has no boundaries, no separate entities.  Love is the through-line that connects us all together.  Any barriers that we put up come crashing down with Love.  When we Truly See another, Love recognizes itself.  The miracle we give to others, from which all miracles come, is the knowledge that each person we encounter is our Savior.  Even when we look upon our earthly enemy, we must See the Savior there within.  By doing so they are our enemy no more.  They may still pose a challenge for us while we're here on earth, but to see that challenge from Heaven's perspective is to see it as an opportunity for growth.

We all possess the potential to alter our way of thinking so that we may see the Love in everything.  Little by little, we will begin to see the fearful images of this world wash away, while in their place a Light of Truth awaits to take their place.  Give this gift of Holy Vision to all those you meet today.  All that need be done is that you See the Love within them.  When you do, you will behold the bond between you and your Brother, and from there you will then realize those ties extend from you and him and God to everyone, connecting us eternally together.  This is how we give the miracles we have received.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman