You are entitled to miracles

This is the seventh in a series of 10 weekly articles that will focus on selected lessons from A Course in Miracles (ACIM): Workbook for Students. There are 365 lessons in the workbook that are meant to be completed daily over the course of a full year, but I will only be focusing on 10 of those 365 lessons.

For this article, I chose a lesson for everyone who is experiencing at least one major personal problem that seems unsolvable without a miracle. It might be a serious business problem, or a major financial crisis, or a health crisis, or any other problem that would need a miracle to be resolved. Farrah Fawcett mentioned in her recent documentary, "It is seriously time for a miracle."

If people receive the miracle they are seeking, they usually celebrate and feel enormous relief and gratitude! Unfortunately, if they don't receive that miracle, they might worry or feel depressed that they were somehow unworthy.

Lesson #77 firmly states for each of us, "I am entitled to miracles." The workbook goes on to say:

"Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusions about yourself. It does not depend on any magical powers you have ascribed to yourself, nor on any of the rituals that you have devised. It is inherent in the truth of what you are."

So if people are entitled to miracles regardless of whether they are "worthy" of them, then why isn't everyone miraculously cured? Why aren't desperate people immediately rescued with a winning lottery ticket or an unexpected windfall?

The answer lies in what people *think* they need (their own will) and what they really do need (the Divine Will). People are surrounded by miracles all the time; the loving miracles just tend to be ignored when people are waiting for one *specific* miracle. When we feel anxious about receiving a miracle, or disappointment about not getting a miracle, we lose the joy of appreciating all the beautiful miracles that surround us constantly:

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar." - Pablo Picasso

"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you." - Jon Bon Jovi

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." - Paulo Coelho

Take a fresh look around you and you will see: you are entitled to miracles.

Here is a video reflecting Buddha's assertion that our whole life would change if we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc3IjuT2LiE.

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