Miracles and Politics

The way things are now in American politics, it feels like it would take a miracle for people to realize their connection to one another, no matter their politics, and see their common hopes, aspirations and concerns as Americans first, despite the political rhetoric.

 

In our everyday thinking, a miracle seems to be a rare, magical, supernatural event that hardly ever occurs and if it does occur, happens to someone else, never ourselves. In this way of thinking, miracles are special, God induced suspensions of natural laws that have to be earned.  Miracles are only dispensed to the ‘good,’ ‘righteous’ and ‘deserving’.  This, of course, is the ego’s way of thinking, the thinking or our self.

 

In the spiritual thinking of the Course in Miracles--the thinking of our Self, miracles are not a suspension of ‘natural’ laws, but a return to them; are free--do not have to ‘earned’ and are available to everyone, all the time. In this way of thinking, because the decision maker in our minds mistakenly chose to identify with the ego instead of with our reality as spirit, the miracle is nothing but a correction—the sudden awareness of the truth about ourselves and the world. The miracle happens inside us, not outside us.

 

Suddenly, the scales drop from our eyes, we wake up and realize things need not be as they are, that almost anything is possible. The miracle feels supernatural because our spiritual reality is supernatural compared to our ego reality. The miracle corrects our self concept, exchanging it for a Self concept.

 

The miracle reveals our At-one-ment; shows us that we are all human beings, no matter our incomes, skin color, politics or religion. The miracle replaces our desire to be special and unique and judge others. The miracle shows us that nothing has changed God; nothing, no matter what we have done, has changed our Self. A dream is a dream is a dream and can have no effect on our reality.

 

So, yes, the way things are now in American politics, it would take a miracle for us to realize our connection to one another, no matter our politics, and see our common hopes, aspirations and concerns as Americans first, despite the political rhetoric, but not the kind of ‘miracle’ our self believes in, but rather the kind our Self believes in.