Miracles Are Natural...

Unique Perspectives: Miracles Are Natural...

By Kim Stevens

Miracles…

Back in 2008 I was going through a really tough time. Chemo, radiation, surgeries. If you’ve ever gone through it, or watched someone else go through it… you know what I mean.

It was during this time that I heard the book A Course in Miracles referenced. Not once, but three different times. By people I really liked. People I respected. Not just for what they said, but for how they were. How they saw the world. How they walked through life.

So I bought the book.

I learned that it was written, or better said, scribed, by Helen Schucman, a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University. Her partner, William Thetford, typed her dictation. From what I understood, they were very invested in the values of the world and were anything but spiritual and had a very strained relationship. Which is why I love this even more.

So here is what happened when I started reading this book. I had an overwhelming feeling that I was reading Truth. Not the truth… but Truth. I don’t even really know how to explain it except that I knew that I knew that I knew. I knew it in my body. It wasn’t a thought. It was a feeling.

I remember every morning getting so excited to open it again, just to see if I would get the same feeling. And I did.

I could go on about that, but I would rather share with you a few of the ideas that I just loved… and that were so profound for me. These are taken directly from the first few pages:

• “Its only purpose is to provide a way in which some people will be able to find their own internal teacher.”

• “There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not ‘harder’ or ‘bigger’ than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal.”

• “Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.”

• “Miracles are thoughts.”

• “Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.”

• “They are always affirmations of rebirth, which seem to go back but they really go forward. They undo the past in the present, and thus release the future.”

• “Miracles represent freedom from fear. ‘Atoning’ means ‘undoing’. The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.”

• “Miracles honor you because you are lovable.”

• “By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.”

• “Miracles restore the mind to its fullness.”

• “The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. It establishes an out of pattern time interval not under the usual laws of time. In this sense it is timeless.”

• “The miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling time.”

• “The miracle substitutes for learning that might have taken thousands of years.”

  
  

Listen, this book is not for everyone. It is big, long, and often difficult to understand. But it speaks to me in a way that few other things do. And maybe that’s the thing about something like this…

To notice what stirs, what lingers… what feels like something you’ve always known,  just long forgotten.

Because for me, during one of the hardest times in my life, this didn’t feel like learning something new. It felt like remembering something I had always known.