We can be an extension of God’s love into the world.

Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real. T-1.1.24: 1-4

The miracles Jesus performs in the bible are usually read and understood as a magic show. Jesus is portrayed as a magician with supernatural powers that defy the laws of nature. In a sense this is true if one considers miracles are of the mind and not of the body.

The metaphysics of A Course In Miracles teaches that the laws of nature in the world of the ego are a social construction and aren’t real and don't exist in the spiritual realm. The miracle is the shift in perception from the world of the ego in the physical realm to the world of the spirit in the spiritual realm. Jesus’ miracles are all acts of love and therein lies the miracle.

In Alcoholics Anonymous when we carry the message of spiritual awakening we have learned from the program to others as it is suggested in step twelve, we are working miracles. Recovery for many people, and those who love them, seems like a miracle after the hell they have been living in.

 

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning and this search, eventually, takes us to the world of the spirit from the world of the ego. The world of the spirit is where Unconditional Love abides as the Universalists taught and preached. The teaching of Universalism, though, has fallen on deaf ears and blind eyes and when one awakens to the meaning of the teaching, a miracle has occurred.

Today, we are encouraged to recognize that we have a choice in which realm we choose to function: in the realm of the ego or the realm of the Spirit. When we choose the realm of the spirit, miracles abound as a manifestation of who we really are, an extension of God’s unconditional love into the world.

What has been making you sick?

Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective. This is healing because sickness comes from confusing levels. T-1.1.23: 1-2

A miracle is a shift in perception from the world of the ego to the world of the spirit, or from the world of conditional love to a world of unconditional love. Distress and suffering comes from confusing the two different types of love.

In Alcoholics Anonymous it is suggested, in the first step, that we admit that in the world of the ego our lives have become unmanageable. Living in the world of the ego has made us sick. We are encouraged, in step three, to make a decision to turn our willfulness and our lives over to the care of God. In other words, we are encouraged to leave behind the world of the ego and choose the world of unconditional love.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth. This requires that we move from the world of conditional love to the world of unconditional love. The first world is the world of the ego and the second is the world of God. It is suggested that we become God-like.

Today, we become aware of the two levels which we operate on: the world of the ego and the world of the Spirit. The miracle occurs when we choose the world of the Spirit and leave the confusion of the levels which has made us sick behind.

Come clean and into the light.

Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. This leads to a denial of spiritual sight. T-1.1.22: 1-3

The opposite of love is fear. What is it that we are so afraid of? We fear God’s wrath because of our separation from God into the world of the ego. Like Adam and Eve, we hide in the Garden after eating the apple from the tree of knowledge fearing that it is only a matter of time before God finds out what we have done and punishes us for abandoning God. We think that if we can keep God in the dark about what we have done, we are safe from punishment. After a while we even forget that we are hiding from God. We think that what is not seen doesn’t exist. Silly us. How naive. How innocent.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, in step four, it is suggested that we do a fearless moral inventory of all the shit we have pulled. Notice that the suggestion states that our moral inventory should be “fearless.” It is suggested that we give up the fear so we can become aware of the Love which is our natural inheritance.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Notice that the principle states that our search for truth and meaning should be “responsible”. Being responsible means that we do not allow fears to stand in the way of our search.

Today, it is suggested that we drop the fear, stop hiding in the darkness, and come clean into the light. This coming clean and into the light enables spiritual sight because we have left the world of the ego for the world of the mirac

Ultimately, Love is all there is.

Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God’s forgiveness by extending it to others. T-1.1.21:1-2

A miracle is the shift in perception from the world of the ego to the world of the Spirit. When we decide to make this shift, we also decide to no longer hold other people and circumstances responsible for our unhappiness. This decision to no longer hold other people and circumstances responsible for our unhappiness is what the Course names as “forgiveness.” Forgiveness is a miracle. And when we have received it, it flows beyond ourselves to others.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, it is suggested in step ten, that we continue to take a personal inventory and when we have made a mistake to promptly admit it. This process involves forgiving ourselves for the mistakes we have made which releases us from dwelling on past sins and frees our attention to the Love that exists which we could extend first to ourselves and then to others. This shift in attention from condemnation to Love is a miracle.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This worth and dignity is our natural inheritance. When we eschew the things of the ego, we become aware of Love which is our natural inheritance. The Universalists taught this a couple of centuries ago and this teaching continues to this day. Attending to the inherent worth and dignity of every person allows us to experience miracles.

Today, it is suggested that we forgive our mistaken notions about what is real. The things of the ego are not real. Only the things of the Spirit are which is Unconditional Love.

Is hope a super power?

One of the sources for the living tradition of Unitarian Universalism is the "words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love."

Krista Tippet and Bryan Stevenson are two  of these prophetic women and men.

From Krista Tippet's interview with Bryan Stevenson 

So now let’s turn briefly to the wisdom Bryan Stevenson teaches

— that hope is our superpower, but the first step in developing

that is very close to home. It’s about getting proximate. And the question

to live here is where you will direct your curiosity and care.

And remember that getting yourself up closer — and that is physically, perhaps;

also, certainly, mentally, spiritually — getting yourself up closer to

new people and places, to questions and possibilities and insights you

couldn’t have seen before, that is the first part of the work. That comes

before setting an action plan. 

Consider these words of Bryan Stevenson: “You should not underestimate

the power you have to affirm the humanity and dignity of the people who

are around you. And when you do that, they will teach you

something about what you need to learn about human dignity,

but also what you can do to be a change agent.”

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Truth in our post truth world feels like a miracle.

Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle. T-1.1.20:1-2

The spirit is of the mind not the body. It is the spirit in the mind that is the altar of truth. Truth, goodness, and beauty reside in the Infinite Presence.

In Alcoholics Anonymous we are encouraged in step eleven to improve our conscious contact with God after having decided in step three to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. We have come to understand that it is in joining with the will of God that we find truth.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The truth and meaning that we seek resides in the infinite presence of spirit not in the body. If we are to find truth and meaning we must give up our attachment to the idols of the ego. Giving up these attachments we become aware of Love’s presence which is our natural inheritance.

Today, it is suggested that we be aware of where truth lies. It is not in the things of the world. Truth resides in spirit and the experience of it feels like a miracle.

Unconditional love is eternal not temporal.

 

Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time. T-1.1.19:1-3

A miracle is a decision to shift one’s perception from the world of the ego to the world of God which is unconditional love as the Universalists understood and taught. This decision involves cooperation, collaboration, and mutuality. This rapport taps into the eternal not the realm of time. Falling in love means that time stands still and has no meaning any longer. The individual experiences what psychologists call a “flow state”. In a spiritual frame of reference it is called a “mystical” experience.

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested, in step eleven, that we improve our conscious contact with God through prayer and meditation. The eleventh step  suggests that we perform miracles and make our mind one with God. Having experienced the eleventh step we then naturally move into the twelfth step which is to carry the message of God’s unconditional love to others.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. When we join with others to love each other our transcendent yearning is fulfilled as we all become one with our Transcendent source.

Today, it is suggested in miracle principle nineteen that we make our minds one with God by cooperating with God’s Sonship which exists far beyond the ego’s idol of time.