“God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to
visit you unless you aren't there.”
―
Angelus Silesius
There is but One Physician that never
fails when we trust Him completely. We place all our trust in the unlimited
Healer, and the result to us is unlimited Health.
The question rises, why did Jesus once
use the clay and spittle (John 9:6), and Elisha tell the leper to bathe in Jordan (2 Kings 5 :10) ?
If one understands the symbolism of material things,
then he uses them without falsely ascribing power to them. Thus Jesus used the
clay and spittle symbolically, knowing that the mixture had no power in itself.
It was his mind that did the work, even while resorting to symbolism to assist
the feeble faith of the man born blind. So also when Naaman was told to bathe
in Jordan, Elisha knew that Jordan water of itself could heal no one, but the
meek and obedient act of Naaman would effect his healing when backed by the
mighty faith of the man of God.
Until our minds become thoroughly imbued
with the understanding that Mind is the only causative power, and that there is
no causation in matter, let us not use symbols, but put all our trust in the
Word of Truth. We have faith in God's Word because we understand its nature and
unlimited power. This is the secret of true faith—to know in whom we believe.
All can heal. Whoever can speak Truth can
heal. Love makes the truest, most successful healers, and wherever we find
"natural healers" we find lovers of humanity. Their power has its
source in the same spring whence flows every good, and it is because of their
great love-nature that certain students are such powers for healing from their
very entrance into life. Its warm radiance has been called
"magnetism," but when they turn from looking to their personal
presence to do the healing and look to their word they find the quality that
healed was mental, not physical.
All healing is from God, whether the
means used have been the relics of superstition or the skill of the most
advanced practitioner in medical arts. Annie
Rix Militz 1904
Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air,
and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a
transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal
Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong
June –
To an admiring Bog!
Jon Mundy - By now many of
you have heard of the passing of Dr. Ken Wapnick on Friday, December 27th.
Ken was only 71. to read more . . .Press Here
Everything is for your own best interests. That is what
it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. It is in recognizing
this that your goals become unified. It is in recognizing this that what you
see is given meaning. ACIM from Lesson 25
Did you know, the only real difference between crows and
ravens is that crows have five pinion feathers, and that ravens only have four.
So the difference between a crow and a raven? Well, that’s a matter of… a
pinion.
When
all magic is recognized as merely nothing, the teacher of God has reached the
most advanced state. For magic of any kind, in all its forms, simply does
nothing. "There is no will but God's." His teachers know that this is
so, and have learned that everything but this is magic. All belief in magic is
maintained by just one simple-minded illusion;--that it works. There are no
laws but God's. Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today, and hold your mind
in silent readiness to hear the Voice that speaks the truth to you. You will be
listening to One Who says there is no loss under the laws of God. Magic always
sees something "special" in the healer, which he believes he can
offer as a gift to someone who does not have it. He may believe that the gift
comes from God to him, but it is quite evident that he does not understand God
if he thinks he has something that others lack. ACIM
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