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What is a Miracle?
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10. "HOW IS JUDGMENT RELINQUISHED?"

4 Remember how many times you thought you knew all the "facts" you needed for judgment, and how wrong you were! Is there anyone who has not had this experience? Would you know how many times you merely thought you were right, without ever realizing you were wrong? Why would you choose such an arbitrary basis for decision-making? Wisdom is not judgment; it is the relinquishment of judgment. Make then but one more judgment. It is this-there is Someone with you Whose judgment is perfect. He does know all the facts, past, present, and to come. He does know all the effects of His judgment on everyone and everything involved in any way. And He is wholly fair to everyone, for there is no distortion in His perception.     
WHAT IS A MIRACLE?    
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   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 love's
   awakening, for fear must slip away
   under the gentle remedy it gives.
 
   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.
   Now is perception open to the truth.
   Now is forgiveness fully justified.
 
   Forgiveness is the home of miracles.
   The eyes of Christ delivers them to all
   they look upon in mercy and in love.
   Perception stands corrected in His sight,
   and what was meant to curse has come to bless.
   Each lily of 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 peace.
 
   The miracle is taken first on faith,
   because to ask for it implies the mind
   has been made ready to conceive of 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 you saw.
 
   Miracles fall like drops of healing rain
   from Heaven on a dry and dusty world,
   where starved and thirsty creatures came to die.
   Now have they 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.
    
 
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 L e s s o n 346
Today the peace of God envelops me,
And I forget all things except His Love. 
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    Father, I wake today with miracles
    correcting my perception of all things.
    And so begins a day I share with You
    as I will share eternity, for time
    has stepped aside today. I do not seek
    the things of time, and so I will not look
    upon them. What I seek today transcends
    all laws of time and things perceived in time.
    I would forget all things except Your Love.
    I would abide in You, and know no laws
    except Your law of Love. And I would find
    the peace which You created for Your Son,
    forgetting all the foolish toys I made
    as I behold Your glory and my own.
 
   And when the evening comes today, we will
   remember nothing but the peace of God.
   For we will learn today what peace it brings
   when we forget all things except His Love.
 
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Lesson 346
Today the peace of God envelops me,
And I forget all things except His Love.
 
Sarah's Commentary:

What a great way to wake up with the awareness that miracles are always available to us. Today we wake up with the intention that no matter what happens in our day we can choose to see it differently. We can turn every misperception over for healing and the miracle. We can be passersby today, not letting anything interfere with our peace, overlooking all that is false. "I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them." (W.346.1.3)
 
I often wake up with thoughts of how to handle my busy day, and if I don't remember to turn my mind to thoughts of God, anxiety is the thought that occupies my mind. Don and I started this morning talking about how we saw a situation that happened yesterday and we both laughed when we realized how each of us saw it so very differently. Of course, both of us were wrong because perception is always wrong. We were simply playing with our projections. When we seek the things of time, not only do we seek to be right and establish ourselves, our image, and our pride, but we also spend a lot of time looking for things in the world we think we want. When we realize more and more that these things don't bring us peace, but only suffering, they start to drop away. Our investment in the things of the world diminishes.

To abide in the peace of God, recognizing that everything is given, we are never alone, and are always supported, is a decision we make today. It means we let go of the temptation to engage in arguments, dismiss thoughts of worry and feelings of anxiety, and stay vigilant for God and His Kingdom. Each time something comes up, we can take time to step back and rest the mind, accept what we see and trust that all is as it needs to be. (Rest, Accept and Trust) "And [in that process] I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own." (W.346.1.7) The foolish toys we made are simply our ideas of what we need for our happiness. They are also the sharp-edged children's toys of sin and guilt. They are called toys because we still value them and don't completely understand they bring us suffering and loss. They obscure our inherent glory from us.
 
At any time throughout the day, we can begin again, just as Jesus tells us in Chapter 30, "Rules for Decision." He acknowledges it is much easier to start the day right in the first place, but we can still make a correction anywhere along the way in our day when it gets off track. Our true desire is for peace, but this desire can so quickly be replaced by our needs, desires and temptations to throw away our peace in the face of perceived difficulties. It is all about what the day is for. What is our purpose. When we commit to peace, everything in our day is a perfect opportunity to learn it. Nothing is wrong. It is all good. When we make it about our specialness instead, we forget who we are and we lose awareness of His ever present Love. When everything in the day is used for forgiveness, the world takes on a new purpose and everything is helpful for our awakening. It is a perfect classroom with optimum karmic opportunity in every situation. In other words, there is no reason not to be a happy learner when everything is used for forgiveness.

"The new beginning now becomes the focus of the curriculum. The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it. The speed by which it can be reached depends on this one thing alone; your willingness to practice every step. Each one will help a little, every time it is attempted. And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear. They are not new to you, but they are more ideas than rules of thought to you as yet. So now we need to practice them awhile, until they are the rules by which you live. We seek to make them habits now, so you will have them ready for whatever need." (T.30.IN.1.1-8)(ACIM OE T.30.I.1)
 
We forget God's Love every time we project our guilt onto others and see the world as simply a place to satisfy our needs for specialness, by using others for that purpose. Now we can choose to use every situation as an opportunity for undoing the ego thought system. It is a question of purpose. Why am I here? Is it to focus on finding my way back to my Self or is it to satisfy every desire of my special self? Today, we choose the holy instant to help us remember that there is another way of looking at the world. Now the events of the world can become the backdrop and what is going on in my mind is in the foreground of my awareness.

Christmas can serve as a great backdrop for looking at our conditioned responses. I find that, over the years, things have shifted for me around events such as these. I no longer spend a lot of time on decorating my home, buying gifts, baking up a storm, attending events or shopping. Clearly there is nothing wrong with any of these activities. In fact, they can serve as a backdrop for watching whatever is coming up in the mind. It is just interesting to see where our conditioned responses are in contradiction to our internal guidance. Purpose is everything, so we are reminded to ask in everything, "What is it for?" "Will this bind me more deeply to the illusion or will it serve to bring me closer to truth?" It is not in what we do, but with whom we are doing it, whether the Holy Spirit or the ego. In everything we do it is important to ask, am I aligned with Love or with fear in every moment? It does take a lot of vigilance in watching the mind.

This does not mean we don't attend to what is to be done, but it can be done easily from a place of peace. "This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent." (T.18.VII.8.3)(ACIM OE T.18.VIII.70) Actually, it is not at all what we do, but with what mindset we do it. Is the guidance coming from the ego or the Holy Spirit? We do not have to withdraw from any activity, whether it is going to movies, watching TV, participating in sports or any other kind of entertainment. It is always about what the activity is used for. If the focus is on our purpose of Atonement, then it does not matter what we spend our day doing. What does matter is that we remember to smile gently at the silliness of the ego and take ourselves lightly through the day.
 
"And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God. For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except God's Love." (W.346.2.1-2) This is when we step outside of the dream and recognize it is our dream. Everything is orchestrated by our own minds and we receive everything we have asked. "Everyone will receive what he requests. But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain." (W.339.1.5-6)
 
The holy instant is a moment outside of time. It is where our peace awaits us. Thus, we accept everything in our day today as another opportunity to learn we are here to be released from fear and remember the love we are. The means are given us that this may be accomplished, and we are reminded once again, "Today the peace of God envelops me and I forget all things except His Love." (W.346) That is the experience of the holy instant, where the activities of the day move into the background and the focus becomes one of recognizing our reality is outside of time and space.

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10. How Is Judgment Relinquished? 

1 Judgment, like other devices by which the world of illusions is maintained, is totally misunderstood by the world. It is actually confused with wisdom and substitutes for truth. As the world uses the term, an individual is capable of "good" and "bad" judgment, and his education aims at strengthening the former and minimizing the latter. There is, however, considerable confusion about what these categories mean. What is "good judgment" to one is "bad judgment" to another. Further, even the same person classifies the same action as showing "good" judgment at one time and "bad" judgment at another time. Nor can any consistent criteria for determining what these categories are be really taught. At any time, the student may disagree with what his would-be teacher says about them, and the teacher himself is inconsistent in what he believes.
 
2 "Good judgment" in these terms does not mean anything. No more does "bad." It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize not that he should not judge, but that he cannot. In giving up judgment, he merely gives up what he did not have. He gives up an illusion; or better, he has an illusion of giving up. He has actually merely become more honest. Recognizing that judgment was always impossible for him, he no longer attempts it. This is no sacrifice. On the contrary, he puts himself in a position where judgment through him rather than by him can occur. And this judgment is neither "good" nor "bad." It is the only judgment there is, and it is only one: "God's Son is guiltless, and sin does not exist."
 
3 The aim of our curriculum, unlike the goal of the world's learning, is the recognition that judgment in the usual sense is impossible. This is not an opinion, but a fact. In order to judge anything rightly, one would have to be fully aware of an inconceivably wide range of things, past, present, and to come. One would have to recognize in advance all the effects of his judgments on everyone and everything involved in them in any way. And one would have to be certain there is no distortion in his perception, so that his judgment would be wholly fair to everyone on whom it rests, now and in the future. Who is in a position to do this? Who except in grandiose fantasies would claim this for himself?
 
4 Remember how many times you thought you knew all the "facts" you needed for judgment, and how wrong you were! Is there anyone who has not had this experience? Would you know how many times you merely thought you were right, without ever realizing you were wrong? Why would you choose such an arbitrary basis for decision-making? Wisdom is not judgment; it is the relinquishment of judgment. Make then but one more judgment. It is this-there is Someone with you Whose judgment is perfect. He does know all the facts, past, present, and to come. He does know all the effects of His judgment on everyone and everything involved in any way. And He is wholly fair to everyone, for there is no distortion in His perception.
 
5 Therefore lay judgment down, not with regret but with a sigh of gratitude. Now are you free of a burden so great that you could merely stagger and fall down beneath it. And it was all illusion. Nothing more. Now can the teacher of God rise up unburdened and walk lightly on. Yet it is not only this that is his benefit. His sense of care is gone, for he has none. He has given it away, along with judgment. He gave himself to Him Whose judgment he has chosen now to trust instead of his own. Now he makes no mistakes. His Guide is sure. And where he came to judge, he comes to bless. Where now he laughs, he used to come to weep.
 
6 It is not difficult to relinquish judgment. But it is difficult indeed to try to keep it. The teacher of God lays it down happily the instant he recognizes its cost. All of the ugliness he sees about him is its outcome. All of the pain he looks upon is its result. All of the loneliness and sense of loss, of passing time and growing hopelessness; of sickening despair and fear of death-all these have come of it. And now he knows that these things need not be. Not one is true. For he has given up their cause, and they, which never were but the effects of his mistaken choice, have fallen from him. Teacher of God, this step will bring you peace. Can it be difficult to want but this?
   
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