Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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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 gives.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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 you saw.
5 Miracles 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.
