Escaping Darkness

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Escaping Darkness

The miracle substitutes for learning that might have taken thousands of years. The power to work miracles belongs to each one of us. We are the work of God and His work is wholly loveable and wholly loving.

We all have a role that God dictates to us in unspoken ways. Our role is to ask God which miracles we should perform.

The words “lead us not into temptation” mean we must recognize our errors and choose to abandon them by following our Creator’s guidance. This requires us to recognize that spirit is in a state of grace forever. Our reality is our spirit. Therefore, we are all in a state of grace forever.

The miracle worker perceives a reality without distortions of perception. He blesses all he sees, undoing all distortions and freeing his brothers from prison.

As we perceive, so do we behave. If our perceptions are inaccurate, our behavior will be also. To perceive reality without distortion, we must learn to look out from the perspective of our own holiness and behold the holiness of others. This is how a man must think of himself and his brothers, in his own heart, because this is how it is.

God has blessed us all in our creation. He created us free to establish our kingdoms where we see fit. For us to make the right choices, we must remember that our spirits remain in a state of grace forever.

Miracles arise from minds that are ready for them, uniting the miracle worker’s mind with everyone, even minds beyond the miracle worker’s awareness. All creations are united with their Creator. As an expression of what we truly are, the miracle places our minds in a state of grace in which we naturally welcome the Host within and the stranger without. When we bring in a stranger, he becomes our brother.

The idea that miracles may have effects on others that we might not recognize is not our concern, because the miracle will always only bless all that it touches. God remains in control of the action aspect of miracles with complete awareness of the whole plan. Our job is simply to be ready for the miracles to occur.

Miracles are not bound by the same laws that govern our errors in perception and awareness. The miracle aims to restore our awareness of reality, allowing us to escape from the dark illusions our minds created which we previously mistook for reality.

Escape from darkness involves two stages. First, we recognize that darkness cannot hide. This step usually involves fear. Second, we recognize there is nothing we would want to hide, even if we could. This step brings escape from fear. When we have become willing to hide nothing, we will not only be willing to enter into communion with our Creator, but we will also understand peace and joy.

Holiness can never really be hidden by the darkness, but we can deceive ourselves about it. Our deceptions make us fearful because we realize in our hearts it is a deception. We exert enormous efforts to establish these deceptions as reality, until the miracle sets reality where it belongs. Reality belongs only to spirit and the miracle acknowledges only truth, thereby dispelling our illusions about ourselves and placing us in communion with God.

The mind’s proper function of serving the Holy Spirit is restored and all errors of perception and awareness are corrected. The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable.

Darkness is lack of light. It has no unique properties of its own. It is an example of the “scarcity” belief from which only error can proceed. Truth is always abundant. Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind. We have no needs because we were all given everything when we were created.

The emptiness engendered by fear must be replaced by forgiveness. That is what the Bible means by “There is no death”. The law itself, if properly understood, offers only protection. It is those who have not yet changed their minds who brought the “hell-fire” concept into it. Those who witness for God are expressing, through their miracles, that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favor of the abundance they have learned belongs to them.