This thread is for sharing your stories... What miracles did you become aware of or create?

One of the questions that this course proposes students ask is; 

What miracles should I perform?

Students may become aware of miracles happening all around, both within and without.. Share them with other students or potential students here..

Before sharing real names of other people here, ask their permission first.  Do not share private information such as birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, without getting permission first. 

Today I remembered to be an observer of world events that are not real.

"The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."


Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God. ~ A Course in Miracles

Here is a great story about how the ACIM works in real life... 

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1131798

Thank you teacher! I will add a few lines from Rev Carrie Drought to my desktop.

An Iranian Christian man and his family have been attending my church for the last 5 months. He has been walking with crutches for the last 3 years due to injuries to his spine and legs. My Pastor called him to the altar for prayers. We celebrate the Lord's supper and then Pastor called me to assist him in the healing prayer (because I had received a miracle healing myself). I laid may hands on his shoulder blades and started to pray in the very strange prayer language the Lord had given me 6 years ago. Pastor prayed for him in English. When I was praying for about 2 minutes, the man started to tremble and dropped his crutches.  We continued to pray fervently when the miracle happened. He started to walk unaided up and down the isle - ever faster - His wife and children (aged 22 and 26) fell on their knees, weeping and praising the Lord. Needless to say, he went home without using his crutches. He told the congregation that when I had my hands on his back and prayed in this strange language, he felt heat and something like electricity entering his body. God uses us in strange ways. All glory to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Miracles are still to be had. All we have to do is believe and receive the healing from our supreme Healer. Never doubt, the Lord is neigh.    

Thanks for sharing your miracle. I am curious.. Would you like to share more specifically how this is connected to ACIM?

"Miracles are a real phenomena. Every tradition addresses the existence of miracles, but they all use different language. We label events as miracles when a desired outcome manifests in a dramatic fashion: We want to be healed from a terrible illness, or attain material wealth, or find our purpose........"

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/miracles-and-you.html

I would add that every religion also has miracles inside of it, including Hindu, Buddhists, Christian, Muslim, etc.. There is no limit or line drawn around miracles.

Miracles can be a trap if pursued for personal ego based reasons, such as power, admiration, money, fame, groupies, etc... That is why the focus of ACIM is on Oneness, spiritual growth and enlightenment, not specifically on practicing miracles with the intention of attracting any of the above..

"The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true. You cannot make untruth true. If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive, you let it be true for you.

Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace. If you perceive truly are you canceling out misperceptions in yourself and others simultaneously.

Because you see them as they are, you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves. This is the healing that the miracle induces."

ACIM Chapter 3, pg. 35

"Miracles are not in competition, and the number of them that you can do is limitless. They can be simultaneous and legion. This is not difficult to understand once you conceive of them as possible at all. What is more difficult to understand is the lack of order of difficulty that stamps the miracle as something that must come from elsewhere, not from here. From the world's viewpoint, this is impossible."  ACIM Ch.14,  pg. 272

Miracles are constant and never ending.. There is no lack of miracles. We do not even have to create them, as they are constant and never ending, done without ANY EFFORT.

We are constantly surrounded and immersed in an ocean of billlions of miracles, every instant. Do you want proof? The proof is simple. Each person is a living miracle, simply by being. There are billions of miracles walking around on Earth. Can you duplicate a person? No? Why not? Because it took a miracle to create you, as well as your family, as well as all living things. Each moment of life is a miracle. How many living things are there in this world, not counting any others? I don't think you can count them all, as bacteria, viruses and soil organisms are also living in their own way. There are millions of these in a square inch of soil. Try counting all of the miracles.. lol... 

Can you create time, or extend life to infinity and Heaven here of yourself with your limited senses of touch, sight, hearing and body, or even with all the tools of science, medicine or physics? No? Realizing that you are unlimited, infinite and beyond the physical and actually LIVING in that, is a miracle beyond all wealth of this planet. ACIM offers that and more. 

There is also no order of difficulty in performing miracles. Think about it; if God is limitless and has unlimited power, then why would there be limits placed on us as extensions of God? We are literally extensions of unlimited light and love, power, forgiveness, grace, as well as miracles.

There are also unlimited miracles working within miracles.. How? Let us focus on just one. A miracle within the miracle of being alive is that we have free will, just like God. We can create miracles, just like God.. Why would God say something other than; You are My light, My love, My joy, My peace, My miracle in action, extending Myself to the world that lives in the illusion of darkness?

So by following this; we are a living miracle, experiencing miracles, and performing miracles every instant we are alive... We do not even have to consciously aware that we are creating miracles... Just by living in the protection of the Atonement, miracles will happen all around us, without any effort on our part, just because we are part of the miracle that is... This is how Masters appear in two places at once, etc. etc... Miracles just happen. Ego is NOT involved. Ego just gums up the works and creates illusions as well as chaos, by thinking that it is in control and knows something. 

The illusion of the world is in part made up of people who perceive that there are no miracles, or that miracles are somehow 'hard' to find, or difficult to 'get'. In part, the illusion is made up of buildings, jobs, electricity and darkness, both physical and spiritual.

The illusion that many people live in is made up of a world based on attack and defense, as well as constant war on such things as drugs, poverty, enemies, disease, etc...all of which are feared, when none of this is necessary or even real. There is no 'war' and there is no need for fear.... This is another miracle. Experiencing this truth or giving this miracle; what is that worth? 

There is only light, not darkness. This is another miracle to be experienced, within the miracles already outlined. However, due to free will, anyone can choose to focus on and live in darkness as well as the illusions that come with it. Anyone can use free will to live in a world based 100% on illusion, with no light in it, despite having all of the electric lights on in their home, shining in their eyes, illuminating their veiled perceptions, ruled by ego. At any moment, any person on Earth can also find what is beyond the veil of illusion. Any person can access the Atonement and enter their true home. Home is inside, not outside. The Heaven we all seek is inside, available here and now, not outside or far in the future. Is this not a miracle as well?

ACIM focuses on reality, joy, peace, love, harmony and freedom, as well as miracles. All of Heaven is awaiting you inside.. Your mansion has been prepared. What are you waiting for?

What is a dream? What is illusion? What is vision? What is reality? 

I had a 'dream' last night. In the dream, the land was covered with knifes. When I looked up, I saw a couple of men approaching me. I experienced fear, as I did not know their intentions. In fear, I picked up two knifes, thinking that if the other person had one knife, I better have more than that just to get an 'edge'. 

Since I had picked up the knives, one of the men felt threatened, and picked up a knife also. Since he was a threat, I figured that he needed to be dealt with, BEFORE he attacked me, so I attacked him... My perception of him picking up the knife translated in my mind, into an attack on me.. I ignored the fact that I had picked up two knifes first. 

We started a knife duel. Since I had an edge, I ended up wounding him with a stab wound before he could stab me. The only reason I did not kill him is that I felt his fear, and knew it was just like mine. I knew that he was afraid of me, more than I was afraid of him. Since I was now feared more, I had the power, and did not need to finish him off. I stopped attacking. I did not really care that he was now injured. He needed help medically, but since he attacked me first, he was guilty and deserved to die. 

A woman approached me and looked me in the eyes. She communicated without speaking. I felt the truth and saw as the situation really was. 

I had identified with my body instead of my limitless soul that cannot be killed. Because I thought I was body, I felt the need to protect it. Ego had taken over from there with an attack defense thought pattern, to protect itself. Everything else happened from there, in a downward spiral of fear, attack, defense thoughts and actions, all of them based on the illusion of belief that I was a body that needed defending. 

The vision of truth is that we are soul. Soul needs no defense or offense. Soul needs no attack or weapons. Since soul exists forever and cannot be killed or attacked, it has no thoughts of itself that pertain to killing, defense, offense or fear.

Soul has no fear, since it has no need to be afraid. Fear is not even in the realm of possibility, since it cannot be touched by any weapons or death.

Death is not a thought soul even entertains as the illusion it is. Since sould cannot die, why would it even spend one second thinking that thought?

Going backwards, if I am coming from soul as a basis for my existence, why would I ever pick up a weapon, for ANY reason? Anyone who thought they were opposed to me could believe in the illusion of body and think that they could kill me, but in reality that would be their illusion, not mine.

I know that my existence as soul or spirit does not stop at 'death' or begin at 'birth'.  So why would I then entertain thoughts of fear, as that is an illusion coming out of body and ego? Fear and anxiety is just another illusion. 

Thank God for the miracles like this dream, that are exposing the illusion of ego and its attack/defense thought pattern. 

April-June, 2009

Mary:  This morning I had an image of taking all my thoughts that I recognized were ego and putting them on God’s altar. As I was mentally doing that, I heard, “Put your image of yourself on that altar also.” I did that and jumped onto the altar, along with all the ego thoughts. What happened was, everything disappeared. The self I had identified with was gone. This left only my true Self, which was abstract truth and Love.
This experience went on for a while. But then I found that I jumped right back into the ego’s thought system again, worrying about some circumstance in my life. When I recognized this, I thought, “Wow, that attraction to thinking in terms of being an individual self seems so strong. How do I get past this?”
In answer to this question, a picture came into my mind: I see myself as a little child reaching out my hand and asking my Father for help. I realize that I know nothing and that all the opinions I have within the framework of being a ‘separate person’ are really meaningless. I allow my mind to still and be quiet. I begin feeling a faint feeling of trust. I allow the feeling of trust to grow. I breathe deeply and rest in this growing feeling of trust.
Images or scenes from my dream world float by in front of me. As I watch them from the detached state of mind, I see that they are merely images. I understand that I do not need to real-ize them or make them real. I can recognize images of separation for what they are — just false ideas that are coming from my mind. I can allow my mind to still and see the world differently with Holy Spirit. I now feel great peace with this. I feel an inner strength. I feel like I am standing on solid ground. I allow myself to recognize or re-know that I am the peace that now fills my awareness.
As I continue to look at the images from this place of being peace, I see how unimportant these images are. I have been caught up in them so many times. And yet now, it seems so much easier to see them from this detached perspective and just smile at the meaninglessness of it all. I have gotten caught up in it so many times, and yet now that doesn’t matter either.
From this state of peace, I see that I am innocent, no matter what false ideas I have believed in. I am peace and I remain peace, even though I have forgotten that this is my Identity. I feel great gratitude for this remembering and see that everyone is the peace that I am now experiencing. I feel their innocence as we rest in truth together.
When I get caught up in the ego thought system, my one choice now is to remember that I know nothing and to choose peace. Remembering that I am the little child who knows nothing, I then reach out my hand to my Father. Once again, I am brought to the truth. Once again, I am brought to a place of quiet where I can see the ego thoughts from a detached perspective. Then I can laugh at the silly ideas that I once so passionately believed in. The way out of the insanity is now clear. But it takes my willingness to remember that I know nothing. It takes willingness to allow the Holy Spirit to return me again to the clarity of peace.

Robert:  Peace is not possible while believing in this world because the world is the idea of opposites and conflict. The appearance of differences is made through judgment based on the idea that separation is possible. This could never be in truth.
To find peace we must step back from this thought system. But we cannot do this alone. The thought system of separation cannot teach us how to let it go. We must reach out to the Thought that remains united with our Source and does not believe in the false idea of separation. So if we want to choose peace, we must first recognize when we are not in peace and acknowledge that we have been mistaken about what we thought was true.
With an open mind, willing to be corrected, we must then ask for help to return to peace and to have our mistaken thought lovingly corrected. This correction is not to be feared, but welcomed with joy. This correction asks no sacrifice but offers Heaven in exchange for hell. Today, I rededicate my attention to bringing all my unloving and fearful thoughts, my thoughts of separation of any kind, to Love for its gentle correction.

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