And so reads my name inside. He sees my name across and to me,
y'all, i'll interrupt the song of the welcome that one to this morning
classed the lesson of the day. I'm very very sorry that I didn't you
the appointed time, which is nine o'clock in the US Central time. I
am currently in Spain, and I was absolutely sure that I had it all
figured out what time I was going to do it, and for some unexplicable
reason, the time passed by, and it's now five thirty in the afternoon.
Here. You will, amiable. If you're not listening now, you
will be able to catch this class hopefully later. I'm a speaker. If
you're still interested day, if the lesson of the day, you would normally
read this lesson at the beginning of the day, and so I trust everybody
did so. But yet we're going to involve ourselves in this class with a
lesson three forty seven, which is a great it's an incredible lesson, actually,
And the more we engage ourselves in this theme what is the miracle?
What is a miracle? The more we actually begin to appreciate, at least
this is what happens with me. The more I begin to appreciate the value
of the miracle and what becomes what becomes a real what becomes a real experience
is the certainty that is expressed in less than ninety one miracles are seen in
light that the miracle is going all all the time, and that the only
thing the problem is your only problem would be that you are not aware of
it. It doesn't your awareness is not necessary for it to be available,
nor is your denial of the occurrence a reason for the miracle not to be
present. It is going on all the time, and it's only your We're
only concerning ourselves with actually in this course of miracles, to yeah to wipe
away or to to express the intention that are our defenses against the miracle,
from against the happening miracle from happening to be wiped away for us. And
so this is part of the lesson of the day. So what we'll start
doing will read the as we as we do, we will read what is
a miracle? And welcome everyone. And again I'm sorry that I was not
there at the point in time, but hey, time is going on all
the time, so if you'll catch it, you'll catch it. Here is
the entire What is a miracle theme. A miracle is a correction. It
does not create nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation and
reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It undoes error, but
does not attempt to go beyond perception nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus
it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the way for the return of
timelessness and loves awakening, for fear must slip away, slip away under the
gentle remedy it brings. A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it
is given and received as one, and thus it illustrates the law of truth.
The world does not obey because it fails entirely to understand its ways.
A miracle inverts perception, which was upside down before, and thus it ends
the strange distortions that were manifest. Nower's perception open to the truth. Now
is forgiveness seen as justified. So forgiveness is actually seen as justified as the
miracle. As the miracle occurs, there in fact simultaneous occurrences. You could
say forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to
all they look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands corrected in his
sight, and what was made was meant to curse has come to bless Each
lily or forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love, and each
is laid before the Word of God upon the universal altar to Creator and creation
in the light of perfect purity and endless joy. The miracle is taken first
on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind has been made ready
to conceive or what it cannot see and does not understand. Yet faith will
bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really there, and
thus the miracle will justify your faith in it and show it rested on a
world more real than what you saw before, a world redeemed from what you
thought was there. Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from heaven on a
dry and dusty world where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. Now they
have water. Now the world is green, and everywhere the signs of life
spring up to show that what is born can never die. For what has
life has immortality, and what has life has immortality because there is only one
life, and that I share with God, and I love the more I
read this, the more we can love this. This, yeah, this
centerpiece you could say, of of course, in miracles, because it really
addresses the question what is a miracle. And one of the things that occurred
to me this morning when I was reading this one sentence and each is each
lily, a forgiveness is laid before the Word of God brought me back to
the idea of John One where it says in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It is
it is really that intent, that that the Word is God, and that
the further we go back to that certainty, the more the closer we come
to the actually, yeah, to recognizing the validity if I can use that
word of forgiveness, the justification of forgiveness, of forgiveness being fully justified on
the basis of what we are, and that actually that is that is as
close as we can get to recognizing the Word of God as God as what
we are. Whereas we begin to fail quite quickly here. Okay, so
the lesson of the day then is less than three forty seven. Anger must
come from judgment. Judgment is the weapon I would use against myself to keep
the miracle away from me. Wow, that's amazing. Judgment is the weapon
and I would use against myself to keep the miracle away from me. It's
not that the miracle is not there. It is still there. It is
always there. And so in the first thing you could say, just from
reading this the lesson title itself, that you would recognize that by giving up
judgment, the miracle becomes available to you, and that your anger is any
anger, that your experience is actually an indication that you have judged and are
keeping the miracle that is available to you away from you. And as you
begin to see with lesser number ninety one that the miracle is going on is
always there, then you can see that there is really no necessity for that,
that you just made a mistake in keeping the miracle outside yourself. The
occurrence of the miracle is really not an accident or a coincidence or whatever.
It is there if you intend to see it. Father, I want what
goes against my will, and do not want what is my will to have
is the premise on which you could say, of course, in miracles is
built that you could say, well, I want miracles and I love miracles.
But really the truth of it is you. In this situation in which
you find yourself in a judgmental association with everything around you, everything that you
think you see, you are actually actively choosing against your own will and do
not want what is your will to have. And this is why forgiveness is
giving you here. This is why we are talking about the miracle as a
correction. Straighten my mind. My father, it is sick, but you
have offered freedom, and I choose to claim your gift today, and so
I give all judgment to the one you gave to me to judge for me.
He sees what I behold, and yet he knows the truth. He
looks on pain, and yet he understands it is not real, and in
his understanding it is healed. He gives the miracles my dreams would hide from
my awareness. Let him judge to day. I do not know my will,
but he is sure it is your own, and he will speak for
me and call your miracles to come to me. Listen today, be very
still, and hear the gentle voice for God assuring you that he has judged
you as the son he loves. And so this is where where you may
become very active in offering all your judgments to the Holy Spirit and in fact
offer everything you see or you think you see lesser number one. Nothing I
see means anything I've judged in amiss according to less than number three. It's
your judgment that has given it the meaning that you think it has, and
it is really not what it is. Actually, those are all the things
that you do not want and not in yeah, in truth what you do
not want, but you have to acknowledge for one second that it's actually what
you want and that it goes against your will. And in that sense is
this course in miracle is a very practical course. It is not trying to
find a solution for your problem, because the problems that you think you have
really have no solution. So like, Okay, I have a problem,
I need of need of parking space, or I have cancer, Please I
need a miracle to to solve this for me, is not what this course
of miracles is offering. It is really the the removal of the black the
blocks to the awareness of Love's presence, where the things that you are concerned
about are really not of any concern. And this is what this course of
miracles is offering you. This is what the mind training is offering you.
This is what the practical application of this of these lessons offers you. That
that your mind begins to get become adjusted to UH. And this will this
is what you will see in the beginning of of course of Course in Miracles,
if you care to look that you get a custom to performing miracles,
and that miracle, the miracle is actually going on all around you, if
you just step out of the way and allow forgiveness to wrestle on all things.
Is the lesson will will prescribe. I will will take a little break
just to to consider this lesson for a minute, and then I would like
to come back and read from the text of of Course in Miracles lesson in
chapter three where it says judgment and the authority and the authority problem, which
is obviously actually what this is also pointing to. And I'm just going to
be curious to see how this feeds into this lesson. Let's just have one
song and then then I'll come be right back with that. Let's see what
we have here. That was not what I was looking for. I was
looking for another so it's heaven is calling you. Softly, draw back the
curtains, opened, the windows, pull up the lines, softly, n
letting the lie in heavenly every so divine. Oh, everything was calling you.
Everything is calling you. And the kids baccady, come back, come
back, come come come Gentlyna, gather your men, rees, send them
free on agre rees Gentlyna hold of beas come through the flows and mans in
the blood overythies on. Everyday is calling your name. Kids back any come
back, come back, come back, come back, come come back.
Come the Jane Pina song me Jane, Okay, thank you so much,
Mitch. It's a wonderful song. So, as I said, on this
day where the lesson is uh uh anger comes from judgment, and this is
you know, this is how you keep the miracle away from you. Let's
read from chapter three, the sixth section, Judgment and the authority problem.
Let's see how far we get with this. If that's his, if this
is is okay with everyone. We have already discussed the last judgment, but
insufficient detail. But in insufficient detail, after the last judgment, there will
be no more. Judgment is symbolic because judgment is symbolic because perception. Beyond
perception, there is no judgment. Wow symbolic because beyond perception there is no
judgment. Judgment is the realm of symbols, and this is what you are
aware of in the world you see, and beyond perception there is no judgment
and therefore no symbolic when the people, when the Bible says judge not that
you be not judged, it means that if you judge the reality of others,
will you will be unable to avoid? Sorry, sorry for that.
When the Bible says judge not that you be not judged, it means that
if you judge the reality of others, you will be unable Sorry. It
means that if you judge the reality of others, you will be unable to
avoid judging your own. So it is it is actually having that effect effect
Immediately you will you will also be judging your own reality, and you will
be judging it in as it is not, and it is a wilful act
of self deception. That is, it is important to recognize that. So
that's the only purpose you would you could is there actually the only purpose that
judgment? Then han has the choice to judge rather than to know. Is
the cause of the loss of peace. Judgment is the process on which perception,
but not knowledge, rests. I have thus discussed this before in terms
of the selectivity of perception, pointing out that evaluation is its obvious prerequisite evaluation,
which is what judgment is. Judgment always involves rejection. It never emphasizes
only the positive aspects of what is judged, whether in you or in others.
What has been perceived and rejected or judged and found wanting remains in your
mind because it has been perceived. One of the illusions from which you suffer
is the belief that what you judged against has no effect. This cannot be
true unless you also believe that what you judged against does not exist. You
evidently do not believe this, or you would not have judged against it.
In the end, this is really cool. Is a really cool reasoning.
I'll read this again. One of the illusions from which you suffer is the
belief that what you judged against has no effects. This cannot be true unless
you also believe that what you judged against does not exist. You evidently do
not believe this, that it does not exist, or you would not have
judged against it. In the end, it does not matter whether your judgment
is right or wrong. Either way, you are placing your belief in the
unreal. This cannot be avoided in any type of judgment because it implies the
belief that reality is yours to select from. Wow, and reality is obviously
the realm of you could say beyond the miracle, because the miracle is actually
clearing that up if you allow the Holy Spirit to to to demonstrate or to
show you, because vision will will make miracles apparent to you and make your
reality a parent to you. You have no idea of the tremendous release and
deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brother's totally without judgment. Wow.
What an incredible offering that this is. This is This is not debatable
as it is stated, is stated as a as a fact that the piece
that you're actually looking for is from that. And what is wonderful about the
lesson of the day is that your anger is when it's when it's apparent.
You now know with lesson three forty seven that anger comes from judgment. You
have judged, and you have judged, and this is the result. You're
angry and you don't understand why you give it all sorts of reasons. You're
never You're never upset for the reason that you think so, you're you're looking
at something that is not there. And this is why you're upset. When
you recognize what you are and what your brothers are, you will realize that
judging them in any ways without meaning. And it's not that you are not
allowed to judge. It is not that you should not judge. That's what
Jesus says in the in the Teacher's Manual. It's not that you shouldn't be
judging. It's not we're not judging you for judging. It is actually is
why would you want to do it? If it has this effect? And
if and it and what he is saying giving you as a fact that he's
demonstrating to you that judging has no meaning. So then the question becomes why
would you? You can? But why would you It is the course of
your difficulty. In fact, their meaning is lost to you precisely because the
meaning of your brothers is lost to you, precisely because you are judging them
all uncertainly. Uncertainty comes from the belief that you are under the coercion of
judgment. You have no choice in the matter. You do not need judgment
to organize your life, and you certainly do not need it to organize yourself.
In the presence of knowledge, all judgment is automatically suspended, and this
is the process that enables recognition to replace perception. I'll read it again.
You do not need judgment to organize your life, and you certainly do not
need it to organize yourself. In the presence of knowledge, All judgment is
automatically suspended, and this is the process that enables recognition to replace perception.
You are very fearful of everything you perceive but have refused to accept. You
believe that because you have refused to accept it, you have lost control over
it. Well, I'll read it again. You are very fearful of everything
you perceive but have refused. You perceive but have refused to accept. You
believe that because you have refused to accept it, you have lost control over
it. This is why you're fearful, and this is why you see it
in nightmares or in pleasant disguises, in what seemed to be your happier dreams.
Nothing that you have refused to accept can be brought into awareness. It
is not dangerous in itself, but you have made it seem dangerous to you.
So we're beginning to see what he means. By you stop judging,
then everything is allowed in to your awareness, and you will begin to recognize
that you don't there's no reason for you to be afraid of anything. When
you feel tired, it is because here, here another demonstration, here's something
else that you can You can say, I'm tired, so he this is
reason why. It is because you have judged yourself as capable of being tired.
When you laugh at someone, it is because you have judged him as
unworthy. And when you laugh at yourself, you must laugh at others,
if only because you cannot tolerate the idea of being more unworthy than they are.
Wow, these are all things that you are very well aware that you're
doing him as you interact with your brothers. All this makes you feel tired
because it is essentially disheartening. You are not really capable of being tired,
but you are very capable of wearing yourself. The strain of constant judgment is
virtually intolerable. See this is also a way in which you judge by laughing
at others, Laughing at yourself. You're judging yourself. It is very tiring.
The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable. It is curious that an
ability so debilitating would be so deeply cherished. Yet, if you wish to
be the author of reality, you will insist on holding on to judgment.
And this is why we are reading this. This is the authority problem that
you have. You want to be the author, you want to be in
control of reality. You will also regard judgment with fear, believing that it
will someday be used against you. This belief can exist only to the extent
that you believe in the efficacy of judgment as a weapon of defense for your
own authority. Again, this belief can exist only to the extent that you
believe in the efficacy efficacy of judgment as a weapon of defense for your own
authority, which it would have to be. God offers only mercy. Your
words should reflect only mercy. Wow, you are as God created you.
This is you are as He is. And this is why this is the
uh the direction. Not because that is what you were ordered to do,
it's what you would you you would be advised to do if you are as
God created you, because that is what you have received, mercy, and
that is what you should give. Justice. What a wonderful lesson here,
justice is a temporary expedient or an attempt to teach you the meaning of mercy.
It is judgmental only because you are capable of injustice. I've spoken of
different symptoms, and at that level there is almost endless, endless variation.
There is, however, only one cause for all of them, the authority
problem. Wow, symptoms and the authority problem are almost are almost synonymous.
You could say this is the root of all evil. Every symptom the ego
makes involves a contradiction in terms, because the mind is split between the ego
and the Holy Spirit, so that whatever the ego makes is incomplete and contradictory.
This untenable position is the result of the authority problem, which, because
it accepts the one inconceivable thought as its premise, can produce only ideas that
are inconceivable. The issue of authority is a question of authorship, cool authorship.
Who is the creator? Who is the creator of my reality? When
you have an authority problem, it is always because you believe you are the
author of yourself and project your delusion onto others. You then perceive the situation
as one in which others are literally fighting you for your authorship. This is
cool, this says. If I never read this, this is the fundamental
error. Just a few more paragraphs, with your permission. This is the
fundamental error of all those who believe that have usurped the power of God.
This belief is very frightening to them, but hardly troubles God. He is,
however, eager to undo it, not to punish its children, but
only because he knows that it makes them unhappy. God's creations are given their
true authorship, but you prefer to be an anonymous when you choose. You
choose to separate yourself from your author, being uncertain of your true authorship.
As you are created by God, you believe that your creation was anonymous.
This leaves you in a position where it sounds meaningful to believe that you created
yourself. You believe that your creation was anonymous. This leaves you in a
position where it sounds meaningful that you believe you created yourself. Interesting this,
the dispute over authorship, has left such uncertainty in your mind that it may
even doubt whether you really exist. At all. Okay, two more paragraphs
only those or three more paragraphs. Only those who give over all desire to
reject can know that their own rejection is possible. It's impossible. The word
rejection, rejection of your brother, rejection of anything. It's the opposite of
the word acceptance that we read just a minute ago. It's like, if
you accept everything as it is, then there is no judgment, and if
you reject, you begin to accept yourself. If you reject your reject yourself,
you have not usurped the power of God, but you have lost it.
Cool. Fortunately, to lose something does not mean that it has gone.
It merely means that you do not remember where it is. Its existence
does not depend on your ability to identify it or even to place it.
It is possible to look on reality without judgment and merely know that it is
there. Wow. What an amazing This is the faith that comes with miracles.
Somewhere you begin to trust that the Holy Spirit is actually seeing for you,
and is seeing for is seeing what is true, and that you're in
safe hands, and that you can allow you can allow to give over everything
without the fear of losing anything, because loss is impossible peace is a natural
heritage of spirit. Everyone is free to refuse to accept his inheritance, but
he is not free to establish what his inheritance is. So peace is your
peace has been saved for you. It cannot be lost. It is just
waiting for you to accept it. But it is the peace of God.
It's not something else. It's not a peace that you have devised for yourself.
The problem everyone must decide is the fundamental question of authorship. All fear
comes ultimately, and sometimes by way of very devious routes, from the denial
of authorship. The offense is never to God, but only to those who
deny him. To deny his authorship is to deny yourself the reason for your
peace. So that you see yourself only in segments, This strange perception is
the authority problem. This strange perception is the authority problem. So seeing yourself
in segments as separated from everything is actually a demonstration of how how absolutely determined
you are to be your own author and that it's actually a demonstration of the
authority problem. It's not. It's the same as saying that. It's like
he would say, Okay, it's arrogant to say that I'm the cause of
what I see. No, it is arrogant to say that you're not that,
and that you're at the mercy of everything that's happening around you, and
that everything is happening for a reason or whatever, that you don't know about
all that stuff. Thank you God for this. There is no one who
does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. If this is the
result of his own free will, he must regard his will as not free,
or the circular reasoning in reasoning in this position would be quite apparent.
Free will must lead to freedom. Judgment always imprisons because it separates segments of
reality by the unstable scales of desire. Wishes are not facts. To wish
is to imply that willing is not sufficient. Yet no one in his right
mind believes that what is wished is as real as what is willed. Instead
of SEEKI first the Kingdom of heaven, say will ye first the kingdom of
heaven? And you have said, I know what I am, and I
accept my own inheritance. Wow, what an incredible lesson. And I'm grateful
that I'm that I that I that I did not forget to do this class
Finally I remembered. And this is what is occurring with you now, you're
remembering that you're you may have forgotten about your your inheritance, but it is
not lost. It's not it's you've lost the power. What did you say?
You lost the power, But that power is not lost. You can
still remember. And this is what a cursing miracles teaching. This is what
a course of miracles is teaching us all the time. If you forget,
just remember again, and you you're back there. The miracle is always going
on. Reality is always available to you. All right. This was the
lesson of the day, My lesson of the day, lesson three forty seven.
I'll repeat the Let me see this anger must come from judgment. Judgment
is the weapon I would use against myself to keep the miracle away from me.
Father, I want what goes against my will, and do not want
what is my will to have straighten my mind. My father, it is
sick, But you have offered freedom, and I choose to claim your gift
to day, and so I give all judgment to the one you gave to
me to judge for me. He sees what I behold, and yet he
knows the truth. He looks on pain, and yet he understands it is
not real. And in his understanding is it healed. He gives the miracles
my dreams would hide from my awareness. Let him judge to day. I
do not know my will, for he is sure it is your own,
and he will speak for me and call your miracles to come to me.
Listen to day, be very still and hear the gentle voice for God shuring
you that He has judged you as the son he loves. I love you
all very much, and I thank you for your patience and bearing with me
to day. And I wish you were a wonderful, wonderful day With this
lesson, you have been listening to voice from heaven. Live in the Miracles
Healing Center. Remember that God's voice speaks to you all through the day,
that God goes with you wherever you go, and that God is the mind
with which you think. God bless us everyone,