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Manual for Teachers: 6. IS HEALING CERTAIN? P 2. 2-8-18

6. IS HEALING CERTAIN? P 2
2 Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat. The instant it is welcome it is there. Where healing has been given it will be received. And what is time before the gifts of God? We have referred many times in the text to the storehouse of treasures laid up equally for the giver and the receiver of God’s gifts. Not one is lost, for they can but increase. No teacher of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing and it does not appear to have been received. It is not up to him to judge when his gift should be accepted. Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.

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Here are the two sentences that are most meaningful to me.

Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat.

We have already talked about some of the ways that healing can be seen as a threat. When we choose sickness, and sickness is always a choice, we do so for a reason. We see some value in sickness and that value outweighs the pain and suffering that is part of sickness. It outweighs the final result, which is death. So having sickness suddenly taken from us can be jarring and unwelcome. Jesus says that when healing is unwelcome, it will wait until it is no longer seen as a threat.

Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.
So if we pray for someone’s healing and it does not seem to occur that our prayer is answered, we need not be concerned. The healing as been received. Knowing that this is true, we can wait patiently for the person to accept it, knowing that acceptance will come in perfect timing as the person can do so without fear. Our function is to extend love (healing) and then we are done. It is not our function to judge that healing or the patient’s acceptance.

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Study of Text, C 15: V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships, P 11. 2-7-18

V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships, P 11
11 Think you that you can judge the Self of God? God has created It beyond judgment, out of His need to extend His Love. With love in you, you have no need except to extend it. In the holy instant there is no conflict of needs, for there is only one. For the holy instant reaches to eternity, and to the Mind of God. And it is only there love has meaning, and only there can it be understood.

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I am the Self of God. I had never thought of it in that way. He created me beyond judgment and since I am the same consciousness as are my brothers and sisters, they are the Self of God as well, and as well beyond judgment.  As I accept that this is true and judgment falls away, as surely it must if I am always looking at the Self of God, only love will be left and the extension of love will be my only need. As God needed to extend Himself, so do I need to extend the love that I am.

Do I think I need my child to call me? Do I think I need my friend to answer my text? Do I think I need respect, admiration or anything else from my brothers and sisters? Of course, I do not. If I think I need these things I must be confused. I have only one need and that is to extend my self as love. How peaceful is my mind when there is no conflict.

The holy instant in which I extend only love reaches into eternity and to the Mind of God. I feel the truth of this as I write it. I cannot access a memory of this, and yet, I know it is there because I feel it. When I have decided to release all that is not love, then I will be in that holy instant and I will finally understand love.

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Manual for Teachers: 6. IS HEALING CERTAIN? P 1. 2-6-18

6. IS HEALING CERTAIN? P 1
1 Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates illusions have no value. The teacher of God has seen the correction of his errors in the mind of the patient, recognizing it for what it is. Having accepted the Atonement for himself, he has also accepted it for the patient. Yet what if the patient uses sickness as a way of life, believing healing is the way to death? When this is so, a sudden healing might precipitate intense depression, and a sense of loss so deep that the patient might even try to destroy himself. Having nothing to live for, he may ask for death. Healing must wait, for his protection.

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The first thing we learn from this paragraph is that healing is always certain. Then it reminds us of what healing is. “Having accepted the Atonement for himself, he has also accepted it for the patient.”  If I see someone as sick, I ask what is it in me that reflects this error. I remember Dr. Hew Lin who healed mental patients by reading their charts and healing in his mind what he saw there.

Then Jesus answers the question that most of us have struggled with. If I, as a teacher of God, have accepted the Atonement for myself on behalf of my brother, why is he still sick? The answer is that it might be worse for the patient to be healed than to remain sick. Jesus talks about the patient using sickness as a way of life and if that way is lost to him, he might fall into an intense depression and a sense of loss. It could lead him to death because he thinks he has nothing to live for.

That seems hard to believe so I asked for an example and I remembered someone who had lung cancer. This was the last of several debilitating diseases she had suffered in her life. Sickness was a way of life for her. She had a sincere religious belief that she suffered for God. She offered all her suffering to Him. She thought that was what God wanted of her and so she gave him that.

I wonder how she would have reacted if all sickness had suddenly been taken from her. Probably at first she would have called it a miracle and been happy. But, Jesus says that guilt is the cause of sickness and if someone was healed but did not feel forgiven, would that produce fear in her mind? And if that person truly believed in sacrifice as a way of life, what would she have to live for without anything to sacrifice? I suppose I could see that fear of healing would keep healing at bay.

I don’t think that this kind of thinking is conscious. We don’t tell ourselves that we are so guilty that we must be punished with pain and sickness. We might tell ourselves that our pain and suffering has a purpose and that God loves us for it. We might tell ourselves that punishing ourselves will abate God’s wrath. I am sure we don’t tell ourselves that without sickness we have nothing to live for, but all of this is occurring. We but do this to ourselves is true in every situation.

I thought of another person who was dying from COPD. She had smoked all her life and felt guilty for it. She believed that she was getting what she deserved. She thought she wanted to be healed and she manifested a way for this to happen. And yet, she seemed at every turn to refuse the gift of health until she died anyway. It looked to me like she insisted on dying. It was a strange thing to watch. Reading this section of the Course helped me to understand. If you don’t think you deserve to live, then living becomes a threat.

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Study of Text, C 15: V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships, P 10. 2-5-18

V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships, P 1
10 All your relationships are blessed in the holy instant, because the blessing is not limited. In the holy instant the Sonship gains as one, and united in your blessing it becomes one to you. The meaning of love is the meaning God gave to it. Give to it any meaning apart from His, and it is impossible to understand it. God loves every brother as He loves you; neither less nor more. He needs them all equally, and so do you. In time, you have been told to offer miracles as I direct, and let the Holy Spirit bring to you those who are seeking you. Yet in the holy instant you unite directly with God, and all your brothers join in Christ. Those who are joined in Christ are in no way separate. For Christ is the Self the Sonship shares, as God shares His Self with Christ.

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All your relationships are blessed in the holy instant, because the blessing is not limited.

The holy instant is outside time. It is a moment in which a new choice is made, a choice for love rather than fear. In the holy instant we know each other and so love each other. We join with each other and with God. All relationships change because the one Self remembered.

This is different than what we do within time. Within time, we don’t know our oneness and so we don’t know love. In time, we need miracles and the Holy Spirit brings into our lives those who need the miracle we have to offer and who can benefit from it. We open our hearts to love and our minds to him and we channel the miracles that heal us all.

In the holy instant, this is no longer needed. Outside of time, there is nothing to heal. There is no one who has more and no one who has less. There is nothing lacking. In the holy instant, we understand the meaning of love. We join directly with God and with all our brothers in Christ.

We can only imagine this while we are still in time, or maybe, we will be graced with revelation and have some brief experience of pure love. That is really something, but it does not last. Here, our focus is on healing, on helping each other to remember. And while this is happening, we seem to heal our relationships one at a time. But, you know, each time I heal a relationship, all of my relationships benefit, so I do get a taste of what it is like to have no limits on my blessings.

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Manual for Teachers: III. The Function of the Teacher of God, P 3. 2-2-18

III. The Function of the Teacher of God, P 3
3 Not once do the advanced teachers of God consider the forms of sickness in which their brother believes. To do this is to forget that all of them have the same purpose, and therefore are not really different. They seek for God’s Voice in this brother who would so deceive himself as to believe God’s Son can suffer. And they remind him that he did not make himself, and must remain as God created him. They recognize illusions can have no effect. The truth in their minds reaches out to the truth in the minds of their brothers, so that illusions are not reinforced. They are thus brought to truth; truth is not brought to them. So are they dispelled, not by the will of another, but by the One Will with itself. And this is the function of God’s teachers; to see no will as separate from their own, nor theirs as separate from God’s.

Journal
What a great paragraph! First, we are reminded that there is no difference between the forms the sickness might take. One is not harder to heal than another. The reason this is so is that they all share one purpose. I am reminded of the question, “What is it for?” This is all that matters, not the form itself.

Then Jesus expands on what he has said before about how to be helpful. The teacher of God understands that the problem is in the mind not the body. They know that this one has forgotten who he is or he could not be sick. The teacher of God knows that we are always just as God created us and anything else is an illusion and that the effects of illusions are illusions as well. How could it be that one illusion is more real than another illusion? That’s just funny.

So we help by allowing the truth in our mind to reach out to the truth in our brother’s mind. In this way, the illusion is not reinforced. In this way the illusion is brought to the truth so that it can be dispelled, not by my will overcoming another’s but through the power of God in us. This is our function, to see the teacher’s my will is joined with the patient’s will, which is joined with God’s Will.

Here is how this looks in my mind. I have someone on my prayer list who needs a job. I hold her in my mind and I see her perfection expressed as a skill set that someone else needs. I see her and the perfect company being magnetically drawn to each other. I see her joyfully joining with that company and the people working there, each to the other’s benefit. It is such a happy picture that I love thinking about it. It is love finding its way to love, expressing itself in the way most useful at this time and in this place.

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