March 2nd 2014 Lesson 348
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 348
I have no cause for anger or for fear,
For You surround me. And in every need
That I perceive, Your grace suffices me.- Invitation Prayer: Father,
let me remember You are here, and I am not alone. Surrounding me is
everlasting Love. I have no cause for anything except the perfect peace
and joy I share with You. What need have I for anger or for fear?
Surrounding me is perfect safety. Can I be afraid, when Your eternal
promise goes with me? Surrounding me is perfect sinlessness. What can I
fear, when You created me in holiness as perfect as Your Own?
- God's grace suffices us in everything that He would have us do. And only that we choose to be our will as well as His.
Insights/comments:
- Anger and fear imply a judgement has been made that God is separate from us and is possibly unloving and/or unforgiving. We are angry because we find ourselves apparently alone surrounded on every side by dangers that fill our hearts with fear. But how could this be true when we are born of the Source that created all that is and we remain forever connected to Him? Every breath we take we take in Him; every thought we think, we think in Him; He is the source, course, and goal of everything that we are and can ever be. And He, being the Creator of all that is, is insuperable, and automatically protects His Creation because it is a part of Himself. There is nothing outside Himself to contradict His Will. What then is left for us but perfect safety, peace and happiness. Separation is a dream, an illusion, a fantasy. Yet as persistent and convincing as it is, it cannot change the truth of what we are as God-children, created perfect, Spirit, and free in the image and likeness of our Creator. The more we remember this single truth, the more it becomes manifest in our experience and the stronger will our faith in it grow.
I and my Creator are One. 
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