God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
1. W-159 “I give the miracles I have received.” I
God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
2. W-160 “I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.” II
God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
I Rejoice, brother! You are as holy as I am.
II The two ideas in this review offer a total correction of perception: “I give the miracles I have received” and “I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.” Jesus is not proposing an ideal to be achieved, but describing a forgotten fact: you are already home, you have already received the miracle. Everything else is distraction.
To give the miracle does not mean to have an extraordinary experience or to feel a mystical impulse. It means to extend what has already been given to you—without interference, without conditions. The miracle is not produced; it is allowed. It is not the result of your emotional state, but of your willingness not to oppose what is. If you still believe you must do something to receive it, you are not recognizing it as given. And meanwhile, you withhold it.
The remembrance of home is not built through affirmations or intellectual understanding. It is activated when you stop seeking it outside yourself. Fear appears when that recognition is forgotten and the stranger’s point of view is adopted. But fear is precisely that: an illegitimate visitor, a foreign thought that has occupied a place that does not belong to it.
To accept this lesson is to reestablish order in your mind. It is not about resisting fear, but about not legitimizing it. Home is your natural state. The miracle, your function. Fear, a rootless illusion. The Course does not ask you to understand this—only that you no longer deny it. And then you will be able to say, “I remember that I used to be afraid, but now I can no longer remember what it was for.”