By Gonny 
A miracle is not a lightning bolt from Heaven, nor a dramatic healing scene reserved for saints, churches or sacred mountains. A miracle is far more simple, far more intimate, and…ironically..far more powerful. A miracle is a corrected perception. It takes a mind that is looking at fear, loss, guilt or limitation, and softly turns its head toward the truth that was always there.
It does not change the world. It changes the way we see the world.
And that, ACIM tells us, is all that ever needed to happen.
A miracle looks at destruction and doesn’t panic.
It simply says: This is not what you think it is.
It undoes the mistake without arguing with it, without fighting it, and without trying to leap beyond your current level of perception. It stays with you in time, yet opens the door to timelessness. It warms the mind until fear begins to melt like snow under sunlight.
A miracle is grace in motion.
It is given and received as one, because the moment you offer forgiveness, you receive peace. The world doesn’t understand this, of course. The world loves complicated laws and heavy explanations. But a miracle quietly reverses everything that was upside-down, and suddenly perception is free to see truth instead of distortion.
Forgiveness becomes its birthplace.
And through the eyes of Christ, which is simply the vision of Love, everything becomes blessed instead of cursed. Every small willingness
you offer becomes a lily placed on the altar of God: pure, joyful, alive.
Now, that all sounds very poetic. Beautiful even. But what does it look like on a normal sunday morning, in a normal life?
Let’s take a little story, almost a little joke:
The Lourdes “Miracles” with new wheels.
There is a well-known pilgrimage to Lourdes in France, where people go hoping for healing. Trains come from all over Europe filled with people in wheelchairs, people hoping for a sign, a cure…..a miracle.
One man arrived back home in his wheelchair. Someone on the platform asked him, half-curious, half-disappointed:
“No miracle this time?”
And the man, smiling, answered : Oh yes…look! I got new wheels!”
Now, depending on your mood, you can hear this story/joke in two ways:
-You can hear it as sarcasm, a kind of bitter humor about unrealized expectations.
-Or you can hear it as a man who absolutely refuses to take suffering too seriously, who gently turns the whole drama upside-down and finds joy where others see failure.
In that second reading……that man performed a miracle!
He shifted perception. He turned fear into lightness. He refused to make himself a victim of circumstances. He saw life, even in a wheelchair, as something playful, not tragic.
And that is exactly what ACIM calls a miracle.
So what is a miracle, really?
First of all a miracle is available to everyone, always. Not only to church believers, not only to the “worthy,” not only to holy places or holy people. It belongs to the mind that is willing to stop attacking itself. It belongs to the moment when you remember your innocence. It belongs to the quiet decision to see the world differently.
A miracle says:
Maybe I don’t need to be afraid right now….I can choose peace instead….nothing real can actually be harmed…..love is still here.
And when the mind accepts this even a little bit, the world becomes green again. What was dry begins to bloom. What looked lifeless begins to breathe. Not because the world changed, but because I/you did.
The Course says:
Miracles fall like healing rain on a dry and dusty world.
Sometimes that rain comes as a sudden release of fear…or it comes as a forgiving thought… or it comes as a smile from a man proud of his new wheelchair wheels.
And sometimes…beautifully…it comes as you.
You choosing love, a kinder way of seeing, or not to attack your own innocence today.
That is the miracle. And it is always enough.
With love and light,
G.