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'''Let miracles replace all grievances.'''
<center>'''Let miracles replace all grievances.'''</center>
Let [[miracles]] replace all [[grievances]].
Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each [[decision]] that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. Each grievance stands like a [[dark]] shield of [[hate]] before the miracle it would [[conceal]]. And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.
Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead. We will reverse the way you see by not allowing [[sight]] to stop before it sees. We will not wait before the shield of hate, but lay it down and gently lift our eyes in [[silence]] to behold the Son of God.
He waits for you behind your [[grievances]], and as you lay them down he will appear in [[shining]] light where each one stood before. For every grievance is a block to sight, and as it lifts you see the Son of God where he has always been. He stands in light, but you were in the dark. Each grievance made the darkness deeper, and you could not see.
Today we will attempt to see God's Son. We will not let ourselves be [[blind]] to him; we will not look upon our [[grievances]]. So is the seeing of the world [[reversed]], as we look out toward [[truth]], away from [[fear]]. We will select one person you have used as [[target]] for your grievances, and lay the grievances aside and look at him. Someone, perhaps, you [[fear]] and even [[hate]]; someone you think you love who [[angered]] you; someone you call a friend, but whom you see as difficult at times or hard to please, demanding, irritating or untrue to the [[ideal]] he should accept as his, according to the role you set for him.
You know the one to [[choose]]; his name has crossed [[your mind]] already. He will be the one of whom we ask God's Son be shown to you. Through seeing him behind the grievances that you have held against him, you will learn that what lay hidden while you saw him not is there in everyone, and can be seen. He who was enemy is more than friend when he is freed to take the holy role the [[Holy Spirit]] has assigned to him. Let him be savior unto you today. Such is his role in God your Father's plan.
Our longer [[practice]] periods today will see him in this role. You will attempt to hold him in your [[mind]], first as you now consider him. You will review his faults, the difficulties you have had with him, the [[pain]] he caused you, his neglect, and all the little and the larger hurts he gave. You will regard his [[body]] with its flaws and better points as well, and you will think of his mistakes and even of his "[[sins]]."
Then let us ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in his [[reality]] and [[truth]], that we may look on him a different way, and see our [[savior]] shining in the light of true [[forgiveness]], given unto us. We ask Him in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself:
:in which he stands, that I may join with him.
<center>''Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed'''</center>
<center>''as the one for me to ask to lead me to the [[holy]] light'''</center>
<center>''in which he stands, that I may join with him.'''</center>
The [[body]]'s eyes are closed, and as you think of him who [[grieved]] you, let your mind be shown the light in him beyond your grievances.
What you have asked for cannot be [[denied]]. Your savior has been waiting long for this. He would be free, and make his [[freedom]] yours. The [[Holy Spirit]] leans from him to you, seeing no [[separation]] in God's Son. And what you see through Him will free you both. Be very [[quiet]] now, and look upon your shining savior. No dark grievances obscure the sight of him. You have allowed the Holy Spirit to [[express]] through him the role God gave Him that you might be saved.
[[God]] [[thanks]] you for these quiet times today in which you laid your images aside, and looked upon the [[miracle]] of [[love]] the Holy Spirit showed you in their place. The world and [[Heaven]] join in thanking you, for not one Thought of God but must rejoice as you are saved, and all the world with you.
:Let miracles replace all grievances.
We will remember this throughout the day, and take the role assigned to us as part of God's [[salvation]] plan, and not our own. [[Temptation]] falls away when we allow each one we meet to save us, and refuse to hide his [[light]] behind our grievances. To everyone you meet, and to the ones you think of or remember from the [[past]], allow the role of savior to be given, that you may [[share]] it with him. For you both, and all the sightless ones as well, we pray:
<center>''Let miracles replace all grievances.'''</center>
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