What Is a Miracle? · Wb.pII.13

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Workbook for Students

Contents

Opening

Introduction

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Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

20 lessons

Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

20 lessons

Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

10 lessons

What Is a Miracle?

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341.I can attack but my own sinlessness,And it is only that which keeps me safe.

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342.I let forgiveness rest upon all things,For thus forgiveness will be given me

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343.I am not asked to make a sacrifice To find the mercy and the peace of God.

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344.Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

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345.I offer only miracles today,For I would have them be returned to me.

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346.Today the peace of God envelops me,And I forget all things except His Love.

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347.Anger must come from judgment. Judgment is The weapon I would use against myself To keep all miracles away from me.

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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.

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349.Today I let Christ's vision look upon All things for me and judge them not, but give Each one a miracle of love instead.

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350.Miracles mirror God's eternal Love. To offer them is to remember Him, And through His memory to save the world.

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Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part II · Question 13

What Is a Miracle?

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1A 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 gives.

2A 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.

3Forgiveness 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.

4The 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 you saw.

5Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures came 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.