December 18, 2012

We are in a season that revolves around the idea of lights.  Seasonally we are in the darkest part of the year, winter.  And in the hours and days following the Sandy HookSchool shootings and feeling we were in darkness, many of us attended candlelight vigils to reach for even just a little comforting light.  We naturally look for ways to light up the darkness in which we find ourselves.  The principles of miracle workers give us guidance so we are prepared to be a light for others who find themselves in darkness.  Understanding these principles helps us to be present for others who are having difficulty finding their way.  And just perhaps we can allow them to see the light already within them, even in their moment of darkness.

The miracle worker is not so much performing great acts, fantastic deeds, or dramatically changing the world we live in.  A miracle worker is more that solid rock, that light shining in the darkness, that one who will love us unconditionally and without judgment as we travel along our journey.  They understand who we really are, even if we have lost sight of our own true self.  The miracle worker really doesn’t need to do a whole lot.  They are asked to hold the correct vision that Spirit guides us in.  They are asked to extend the love of God to others.  They are asked to look beyond the appearances of what we and others see.  They are asked to let Spirit and God work through their actions and the actions of others.  They are asked to be the light of the world and to let that Divine light within shine brightly as a guide to others.  Who are the miracle workers?  We all are!

This section concludes with one of my favorite passages called the Miracle Workers’ Prayer.  It says:

“I am here only to be truly helpful.

I am here to represent the One who sent me.

I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do because the One who sent me will direct me.

I am content to be wherever the One wishes knowing that the One goes there with me.

I will be healed as I let the One teach me to heal.”

ACIM T-2.V.A.18.2-6

As we move through the Christmas season, we remember that this is a season for joy, for peace, and for love.  It is a time we can let go of all the “stuff” that seems to get in the way of our Divine light and its shining presence.  Letting ourselves be in a gentle place of miracle-mindedness will make a huge difference in the ones we encounter this season.  As the Miracle Workers’ Prayer says, We are here only to be truly helpful.  Let your Divine light gently shine on all you are with this season.  This will surely be a season of peace, love, and joy.  I wish you all a season of abundant peace, love, and joy.

December 11, 2012

We continue to look at learning, miracles, and healing.  Since we have adopted the mind set of separation, our error is at the level of our mind, at the level of our thinking.  This is a very important idea to remember.  All learning, correction, and healing we need is at the level of the mind, our thinking, not the physical.  Correction needs to happen at the level it has occurred.  Any attempt to correct at any other level will be at best temporary and ultimately unsuccessful.  Our efforts will be much more productive and successful when directed to the level of the mind where the error occurred in the first place. Anything on the physical level may be used as a learning device, but there can be no error or correction of error at the physical level.

The mind is connected to the spiritual level.  Our right mind is one with Spirit and communicates with Spirit.  Our wrong mind is made up from the idea that we are separate and therefore is not real and cannot communicate with Spirit.  Right-mindedness is always with us.  We cannot change or destroy it.  And it always remains with us waiting for us to recognize that it is there within us.

Only the mind is capable of illumination.  Illumination comes from Spirit which is already illuminated.  All our mind needs to be illuminated with the light of God is the recognition that it is One with Spirit.  This is where correction and healing occur.  Miracles are the change in our thoughts and perception, that shift our thoughts to the awareness of this illumination within us.  Though the body itself cannot be illuminated, it can receive and reflect illumination from the mind and reflect that illumination into the world.  The body is easily brought into alignment with the healed mind when we learn to look beyond it toward the light.  The Course always asks us to look beyond the appearance of everything physical, temporary, and therefore not real to the Light beyond its appearance.  Miracles are the shifts in our perception that allow us to see beyond the appearance of anything we think we see.

The illumination of Spirit is there just beyond waiting for us to recognize it.  Our sight is reborn, born anew.  We once were blind, but now we see!  Release yourself from the captivity of seeing only appearances and let your spiritual vision show you what’s beyond appearance.  You will recognize the Mind of God and your Oneness with it and rejoice in the freedom to be who you really are in every circumstance you encounter in this world.  All error is corrected in the light of Oneness.  Let it be so, and let yourself be free to be.

December 4, 2012

This section begins with the statement – none of our errors are meaningful because the miscreations of the mind do not really exist.  If none of our errors or miscreations really exists, there is nothing to fear.  If there is nothing to fear, we are no longer held captive by our fears, mistakes, errors, or miscreations.  We are free.  We are unlimited.  We are in the midst of God’s love, peace, joy, and abundance.  We are “protected” by the recognition that we cannot be harmed.  This is correction at the level of our confusion.  Any correction we need comes at the thought level, no other level.  This is the correction that prepares us for our function in this world.

Our function in this world of form is to be miracle workers.  Yes, that’s right, miracle workers.  Sound daunting?  Probably, but that’s our function.  However, we don not perform miracles on our own.  We are never asked to do anything “on our own”.  The Course tells us miracles are expressions of miracle mindedness, and miracle mindedness is right-mindedness!  The miracle is the shift in thought that moves us from wrong-mindedness to right-mindedness.  It is the movement from the idea that we are separate to the idea that we are One, that we are joined, that we are in unity.  This is the Atonement – At-One-ment.  The recognition of our Oneness is our healing.  This realization of our Oneness transforms how we see ad perceive the world, ourselves, and each other.

This shift in awareness dissolves all fear, releases all guilt, and frees all restraints that we may have been limiting us in our thoughts.  The light of Spirit that is within us comes rushing up to shine brightly from the Divine Presence within us.  Nothing unreal can remain in that divine light.  Any error in perception simply fades away in the light of Truth.  To share our function as a miracle worker simply requires that we accept the Atonement for ourselves.  Simply release all the mistaken thoughts we carry with us to the light of Spirit within us.  Jesus said, “My load is easy and my burden is light.”  We’re carrying much more than Jesus ever intended.  The Course asks us to release the burden of our misperceived ideas and carry with all of Creation the light already within us and let it shine forth.

From this awareness the miracle is expressed through our soft eyes of Spirit, through the soothing voice of Spirit, and through the warm touch of unconditional love.  Accept the Atonement for yourself.  And let your true function express the perfect miracle to another.  Spirit will guide you every step of the way.  And you will walk together into the light that shines from within both of you.  Let it be so.