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	Miracle Worker's Prayer If you tell me what to do, Jesus, I will to do it, and I will not do What you would not have me do. I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Christ, who sent me. I do not have to worry about What to say or what to do, Because the One who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, Knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
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Miracles not only defy explanation, they also defy definition, for the miraculous simply cannot be nailed down and analyzed. Any attempt to do so would be about as useful as trying to predict a surprise. If it can be predicted, it isn't a surprise, and if it can be defined, explained, and analyzed . . . it isn't a miracle.

Miracle studies, then, are very different from most other types of study. To the modern mind a search for the miraculous may seem frustratingly indirect and vague, but acquaintance with miracles is not a matter of simple mechanical technique. Training for miracle-mindedness is a process of psychological preparation and uncompromising self-honesty. Miracle studies, then, is ultimately self-study.

"Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first."

Above all else, miracle study requires a willingness to be wrong about what you now believe to be true, and a commitment to overcoming fear. The miraculous is spontaneous. The purpose of miracles is to prove to you that what you believe is not true, which would include your erroneous fear-based beliefs about mircles. A miracle is "unstable, but perfectly consistent . . . it does not occur predictably across time, and it rarely occurs in comparable forms." [ACIM urtext]

The main focus of this Miracle Studies On-Line website is the book "A Course in Miracles." A primary purpose is to make "A Course in Miracles" freely available to all those who seek it, but without necessarily being limited to that particular tool. Narrow-mindedness is not advised.

Each quest is unique, and like the hero of the Grail Quest, "each entered the forest at a point he, himself, had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path."

May this provide you with some light upon your journey.

A Note on Spiritual Navigation

It has been clearly established that humankind is not born with any innate sense of direction. Left to our own devices in unfamiliar surroundings we are essentially . . . lost. Without external landmarks to guide us, we will simply travel in circles. As author Calvin Rutstrum pointed out in his book The Wilderness Route Finder, experiments show that even "when blindfolded drivers were directed over a straight line by companion passengers with open vision, drivers felt a continual, compulsive urge to pursue the circuitous course as the logical one." It seems, then, that humankind not only lacks an innate ability to travel in a straight line to a selected destination, we also have a somewhat perverse internal preference for going astray.

Rutstrum also pointed out that people do not easily accept the fact of this personal navigational handicap.

"Tests resulting in failure to keep a direct course often brought indignation and in some instances even violent, reactionary, and unreasoned protests from the participants. Thus, man's pet delusions and his willful thinking, we may be sure, are torn from him only with much displeasure-an important determining factor we can well afford seriously to consider in our entire route-finding program as it applies both to ourselves and to others."

How much more serious, then, is the built-in tendency to go astray when it comes to navigating the interior spiritual and psychological landscapes?

It is a question worth being kept in mind when approaching all questions of faith and belief.