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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Sunday Sermon - What is this miracle stuff?

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"I define a miracle as a shift in perception which removes the blocks to our awareness of love's presence."

Carol Howe

"Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong."
A Course In Miracles, Miracle principle # 6

"Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first"
A Course In Miracles, Miracle principle #7

What's all this miracle stuff, Dave, I read on The Brockporter?

As Carol said, miracles are shifts in perception which remove the blocks to our awareness of Love's presence. Miracles are brought about most often by forgiveness. We do not condone unloving actions, but we rise above them and we see them for what they are, misguided attempts to achieve happiness.

Life on the ego plane is fraught with unhappiness. We are never upset for the reason we think. Whatever misguided explanation we conjure up for the projected reason of our unhappiness it always boils down to fear. The course teaches that fear is the opposite of Love and whether we are aware of it or not Love is what we are, the extension of God's Love in the world which we have separated ourselves from because we think, in our egotistical rationalizations, that we know best when all we have done is spun illusions that dissipate sooner or later and always upon our death.

 A Course In Miracles sums this up nicely in its introduction where it reads:

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.

Turn off the TV and set the digital media aside for a day, a half day, maybe just an hour and consider the Love in your life and the peace you could achieve if you would forgive those against whom you hold resentments and grievances. As they say in Alcoholic Anonymous, "take your own inventory not everyone else's." Ask the Holy Spirit, Jesus, your Higher Power, Mother Nature, Yahweh, the Great Spirit or Love to come into your heart and bless you and all your brothers and sisters and all things.

Miracles, the shift in perception, is everyone's natural right, but first purification is necessary and that purification comes with forgiveness.

Jesus said as they were torturing Him and killing Him, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

I aspire to have that presence of mind, that cosmic consciousness, that kind of Love in my heart. We look back after 2,000 years and say, "He was absolutely right. How did he know and forgive how stupid they were being to kill the Son Of God?" And yet we continue to do it day after day to attack and kill God's sons and daughters. Would that more miracles occur in Brockport and around the world. I hope for it. I wish for it. I work for it. And so that is why I mention A Course In Miracles here on The Brockporter.
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