A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

July 8th 2016  Lesson 91(b)

Miracles are seen in light. 

It is important to remember that miracles and vision necessarily go together.  This needs repeating, and frequent repeating.  It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perception that it produces.  The miracle is always there.  Its presence is not caused by your vision; its absence is not the result of your failure to see.  It is only your awareness of miracles that is affected.  You will see them in the light; you will not see them in the dark.
   
To you, then, light is crucial.  While you remain in darkness, the miracle remains unseen.  Thus you are convinced it is not there.  This follows from the premises from which the darkness comes  Denial of light leads to failure to perceive it.  Failure to perceive light is to perceive darkness.  The light is useless to you then, even though it is there.  You cannot use it because its presence is unknown to you.  And the seeming reality of the darkness makes the idea of light meaningless.
   
To be told that what you do not see is there sounds like insanity.  It is very difficult to become convinced that it is insanity not to see what is there, and to see what is not there instead.  You do not doubt that the body's eyes can see.  You do not doubt the images they show you are reality.  Your faith lies in the darkness, not the light.  How can this be reversed?  For you it is impossible, but your are not alone in this.
   
Your efforts, however little they may be, have strong support.  Did you but realize how great this strength, your doubts would vanish.  Today we will devote ourselves to the attempt to let you feel this strength.  When you have felt the strength in you, which makes all miracles within your easy reach, you will not doubt.  The miracles your sense of weakness hides will leap into awareness as you feel the strength in you.
   

• Intention:  To feel the strength of the One who supports our little efforts to see the light.  His strength brings all miracles within easy reach and removes all our doubts about the reality of miracles.
      
• Practice: Three 10-minute sessions with eyes closed.  In addition, repeat today's statement five or six times each hour. 
     
• Application:  Long sessions -- Repeat the following statement of true cause and effect relationships:  
  Miracles are seen in light.
  The body's eyes do not perceive the light
  But I am not a body.  What am I?
  
  Ask the question in honesty, then devote several minutes to allowing your mistaken thoughts about your attributes  be corrected, and their opposites to take their place  Say for example:
  I am not weak, but strong.
  I am not helpless, but all powerful.
  I am not limited, but unlimited.
  I am not doubtful, but certain.
  I am not an illusion, but a reality.
  I cannot see in darkness, but in light.
  

  
  Relax for the rest of the practice period, confident that your efforts, however meager, are fully supported by the strength of God and all His Thoughts.  It is from them that your strength will come.  It is through their strong support that you will feel the strength in you. 
  Now try to experience these truths about yourself.  Concentrate particularly on the experience of strength.  Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith.  Try to remove your faith from it, if only for a moment.  You will be accustomed to keeping faith with the more worthy in you as we go along.
     
• Application:  Short sessions -- Repeat today's idea with deep conviction, five or six times each hour.   And be sure to meet temptation with today's idea in the following special form:
  Miracles are seen in light.  Let me not close my eyes because of this.



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Insights/comments:
  
• Miracles and vision necessarily go together.  Miracles are always there, but our awareness of them is illumined by the light.  Two obstacles exist:  first our denial of the light, and second, our faith in the darkness.  Denial of the light prevents us from seeing it, which then strengthens our faith in what we seem to see in the darkness.
     
• We are not awake, we are dreaming and in the darkness of our dreaming we created dream bodies that appear to function.  But we are not these bodies.  The body's eyes do not see the light, only the darkness of our dreams.  Because we made these bodies we believe them to be real and have faith in what they tell us, thus our faith is in darkness, not in the light.
     
• To remedy this on our own is impossible, but fortunately we have the might power of God to help support our little efforts.  Let us put our faith in this strength, then doubt and question the reality of the apparent darkness instead.  Miracles can only be seen in the light, and that light God created us to be.

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I and my Creator are One.