February 23rd 2014 Lesson 341
Part II Introduction
We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal. During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
This is how our times with Him will now be spent: we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so. We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed.
Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us. They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us. The next of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 341 - 350:13. What Is a Miracle?
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 brings.
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 was there.
Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come 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.
Lesson 341
I can attack but my own sinlessness,
And it is only that which keeps me safe.- Invitation Prayer: Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness so dear and deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your Holiness. How pure , how safe, how holy, then, are we, abiding in Your smile, with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him.
- Let us not, then, attack our sinlessness, for it contains the Word of God to us. And in its kind reflection we are saved.
Insights/comments:
- An attack on my holy sinlessness is the belief that we are not the holy children of God, or that we are the children who have fallen out of favor with their Creator. But how could this be possible when the Creator is the source of our existence? He is the One who created us perfect, Spirit, free, likened unto Himself; the One who knows our true identity, and our full potential as an extension of Himself; the One with whom we are forever inextricably united. It is impossible that we are not the children of God, for He is the sole creator of all that is, and it is also impossible for us to be out of His favor for we are united with Him and He does not contradict His own Will. So the only place an attack on our sinlessness can occur is in our dreams, fantasies and illusions, where we can make up any scenario we wish and play the part of victim, lost to our own identity. But this is not the reality that God created, it is only a game that we have played in for so long that we have forgotten our true identity, which is easily remedied by the remembrance of who God is and. So now, while we live in our make-believe world of dreams, let us begin to listen more to the word of God within us so that we may quickly awaken form our impossible dream of being apart from our Creator.
I and my Creator are One. 
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