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 deliver 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 joy.

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 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.