When a decade of work vanished in a single afternoon, peace stayed close - because nothing real can be lost, and no miracle is harder than another. For a miracle is a change in perception from fear to love, problem to peace, and dark to light. My true function was not to judge the loss, for nothing real can ever be stolen, but rather to 'forgive within' to change the mind from wrong to right.

When you correct your thinking from judgment and attack (wrong-mindedness) to peace and love (right-mindedness), via the miracle of The Treasure Map, you undo the guilt within that keeps the misperception of separation as your truth. By correcting the cause - hidden deep within the subconscious - you change the projection in the world of form. Talk about miraculous manifestation. And I was recently reminded of this truth. When everything was on the line.

Yes, when my computer, only two-and-a-bit years old, decided to bow out, I was scrambling for a solution. Google didn't provide the answers, and neither did the online help desk. So I went into the store. A completely adorable guy set to work. I explained, "Everything I have done over the past ten years is stored on this laptop. I need to be able to get in." But it wouldn't start. An unseen manuscript, my daily journal from the years of sickness, ideas, blog posts, poetry, website information, photos, personal records - you get the gist. There was a lot on this device that I couldn't afford to lose. "Please help me!"

After running his tests, he revealed that the only way in would be to erase everything and restore new software. Damn. This was not good. I was about to lose all I had done for the past decade.

"There is no order of difficulty in miracles; one is not harder than another."
- Principle 1 From A Course in Miracles

Luckily, peace had me in her purified paws. For this principle from the Course simply means that no matter what happens your true function is to forgive within. No matter the story the belief in separation from Source spins.

I thought it would sting. But because I have been practicing Truforgiveness for some time - and because, all through the stressful day, I kept this true way of 'forgiving within' in mind even as I worked hard to find a solution - peace was to be the prize. "I'm sorry, Natasha, but the only option now is to completely erase everything and start again." He gazed at me with compassion. The store was under the pump, yet he was soft and gentle.

I had already explained what everything meant to me. And then I heard myself say, "It's better than someone dying." He smiled back and said, "I like the way you think." In truth, there is no order of difficulty in miracles; one is not harder than another. There is only the decision for Truforgiveness over judgment - whether that be someone seeming to lay their body aside, or my computer breaking down. "I guess this is a fresh start," I smiled. And I felt it. Peace had me.

I thought something like this might torment, since the ego would suggest I had lost so much. But in that moment I realized something extremely powerful. I hadn't lost peace, for I held the hand of Perfect Love, and the events unfolding in the ego's story couldn't touch me. I was wrapped in stillness, moment by moment, as I watched everything be gone.

A fresh start, I reminded myself.

As he handed my computer back, he said, "I wish all my customers were like you. You have a beautiful energy, Natasha." I was touched by the exchange, and grateful for his words. Like an innocent child, I replied, "I teach Truforgiveness. I have to do what I preach."

I glided out peacefully. Not all days are this way. But, a new direction had been born. It was time to let go of the heaviness of the past decade as a new story unfolded. It was as though God were saying, 'I have wiped that clean.' Truforgiveness had made clean what once seemed dirty. I felt freedom from all that the last ten years had thrown my way. A new door had opened, and I had no need to carry the past with me any longer. It had served its purpose. It came to teach me an important lesson, and I had finally understood. 'Only love is real, all else imagined,' peace whispered as I walked.

And the reason there is no order of difficulty in miracles is that everything in the dream of time is thought, projected outward. You can only ever truly forgive a thought - and if you don't, you make a judgment about it, which empowers the wrong mind of specialness and chains you to fear and failure.

Only love is real, all else imagined.

The ego would say I had lost so much. But I tell you this: I had gained so much more. Freedom. Joy. Peace. Happiness. Safety. All of the treasures that are truly valuable.

Have you lost anything lately? Who, or what, is it - and are you willing to forgive within, to see that there is no loss, for only love is real.

Much love, peace and Truforgiveness,