Lesson 77. I am entitled to Miracles.
What are miracles? What is mine by right? Surely miracles are that which is beyond the sight of the thinking mind. In common parlance, it seems as if a miracle is a happy resolution to a problem I have defined. This cannot be what a miracle is. We know that I am not capable of defining the problem. Defining the problem and seeking to have it fixed is the terrain of the ego. What, then, could a miracle be?
A miracle is defined in the Cambridge English Dictionary as “an unusual and mysterious event that is thought to have been caused by a god because it does not follow the usual laws of nature.” ACIM tells us “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.”
“Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. You have been promised full release from the world you made. You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost. We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth. Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.”
Finally, we must come humbly to ask what it is our habitual way of seeing has hidden from our sight. What am I that miracles should occur at my request? Father show me how to live in the miracle of my true nature—show me what I Am.
How could I know when a miracle is needed as stated in the lesson? I know when I am believing in the laws I have made. I know when I am believing I am a limited and biased body-mind. I know when I experience less than the peace and joy I have been told that I am. NTI Thessalonians tells us: “Peace is the guiding light that you must follow as you learn to look within the mind. For it is peace that leads you to recognition of truth, and it is lack of peace that reminds you that you are not following your way.”
When I recognize the absence of peace, then, I know “the situation calls for [miracles].” Then, I shall ask and wait in silence for the answer. “We are asking a real question at last.” – What am I? What is God/truth? What is a miracle? Show me, that I may know.
