Friday, October 8, 2021

Broken bodies / damaged brain.

 

 God does not use words, and does not answer in words.

He can only “speak” to the Christ in you, Who translates His Answer into whatever language you can understand and accept. Sometimes words will limit fear; sometimes not. That is why some people hear words, some receive feelings of inner conviction, and some do not become aware of anything. Yet God has answered, and His Answer will reach you when you are ready. Special Messages to Helen Schucman from Jesus: Applicable to all students of A Course in Miracles

You should know that all God’s children are fully worthy of complete courtesy. You should never join with one at the expense of another. Page 256 Absence From Felicity

 … You have a fear of broken bodies because your ego cannot tolerate them. Your ego cannot tolerate ego-weakness, either, without ambivalence, because it is afraid of its own weakness and the weakness of its chosen home.

            That is really why you recoil from the demands of the dependent, and from the sight of a broken body. Your ego is threatened, and blocks your natural impulse to help, placing you under the strain of divided will. You withdraw to allow your ego to recover, and to regain enough strength to be helpful again on a basis limited enough not to threaten your ego, but also too limited to give you joy.

            Those with broken bodies are often looked down on by the ego, because of its belief that nothing but a perfect body is worthy of its own temple. A mind that recoils from a hurt body is in great need of rehabilitation itself. A damaged brain is also hardly a danger. All symptoms of hurt need true helpfulness, and when ever they are met with this, the mind that so meets them heals itself.

Absence From Felicity page 289

You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
(ACIM, T-2.V-A.18:1-6)

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