Daily, Effortless, and Natural...

"Each day should be devoted to miracles." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 1, Section I, 15:1

Brushing my teeth is a daily, effortless and seemingly natural activity.  But it is actually a learned behavior, and it is obviously a bodily activity.  Nearly everything that is considered natural in our conditioned state is learned behavior associated with protecting or defending the body or a personal identity.  When A Course in Miracles tells us that miracles should be daily, effortless, and natural, it is not referring to learned or bodily activity.  The miracle is a state of mind that has always been here, unseen by the conditioned, sleeping mind.  It is the state of One-mindedness.  The recognition that there is only One that includes All, in perfect Love and perfect Security and Fulfillment. 

"Every loving thought the Son of God ever had is eternal.  The loving thoughts his mind perceives in this world are the world's only reality." -- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 11, Section VII, 2:1-2

Just as each day should be devoted to miracles, we're told that they are the natural, effortless expressions of the Love that we are.  It is because Love is really All there is, that all miracles are all the same.  All expressions of Love are maximal.  So there is no ordering or ranking in Love, only the outpouring, extending, embracing qualities that are so far beyond our conditioned notions of love.  The fact that we don't perceive or experience this daily is why forgiveness is our only purpose and function here within the dream we call life.  We forgive each dual meaning, each limiting perception, every limitation we have placed on any aspect of creation, and allow the miracle to be revealed.  It is always here, waiting only for our attention and willingness to let go of the mental obstacles we have cherished instead.

"The real world can actually be perceived.  All that is necessary is a willingness to perceive nothing else.  For if you perceive both good and evil, you are accepting both the false and the true and making no distinction between them.  The ego may see some good, but never only Good." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section VII, 2:6-8 & 3:1

Everything we see in our supposedly normal and natural state is divided.  There is always a flip side, a duality.  Even the good that we do, we do because we want to avoid what we believe is not good.  We equate protection and defense with love, though it is not.  If we are protecting and defending anything, it is because we think there is something 'other' to defend it from.  And there can never be two in perfect Love.  Only through unified vision, through the Awareness of the Oneness of Self can Love be known.

"The perception of Goodness is not knowledge, but the denial of the opposite of Goodness enables you to recognize a condition in which opposites do not exist.  And this is the condition of Knowledge. Without this awareness you have not met its conditions, and until you do, you will not know it is yours already." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section VII, 4:1-3

We are always forgiving duality.  Whenever we perceive something in opposition to something else, we forgive.  We bring to Awareness the compulsion or belief that is the origin of the duality we are perceiving.  And it dissolves in the Light of Awareness.  It was never there.  Only the miracle of Love remains.  This is our only purpose, regardless of the scripts our lives seem to follow.  The Real world is the forgiven world, seen through the unified eyes of Love.  Daily, effortless, and blessedly natural.

"The sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 2, Section V, 5:1