IX. The Reflection of Holiness, P 8
8 The response of holiness to any form of error is always the same. There is no contradiction in what holiness calls forth. Its one response is healing, without regard for what is brought to it. Those who have learned to offer only healing, because of the reflection of holiness in them, are ready at last for Heaven. There, holiness is not a reflection, but rather the actual condition of what was but reflected to them here. God is no image, and His creations, as part of Him, hold Him in them in truth. They do not merely reflect truth, for they are truth.
Journal
Here is the image that came to my mind when I read this. I think I have sinned, that there is darkness in my mind and I feel tainted by it. I have a whole story about how bad I am and if anyone heard the story, they, too, would know that I am evil. Maybe I was disloyal and hurt someone I loved. Maybe I stole or treated someone with disdain. Maybe I judged someone and gossiped about them and they were deeply hurt by my actions. Maybe I murdered someone.
There are so many stories to represent the guilt and fear in our minds. But whatever it is I have done, I am tired of suffering for it and I go to the Holy Spirit with my sad little story. I see myself standing before an altar where I place my story in the hopes of forgiveness. The room is suddenly filled with the most beautiful light, brilliant and warm.
It exudes love and that love wraps me in its embrace and I am healed. For a moment, I feel cheated. The Holy Spirit didn’t even look at my story, carefully constructed, sometimes over years of gathering proof to make my sin apparent. But the love of God has healed my heart and soon I forget all about my transgression. I am clean and whole and perfect as I was created. I will gladly look within to find all darkness so that I can return to this healing room until there is only light in my mind.
Then I go back into the world of time and I bring with me the desire for everyone to be healed. I look at my friend who thinks he has sinned and who carries the burden of his story with a heaviness and a darkness that he thinks is permanent. I’m not interested in the story. It is irrelevant to healing. I just know who he is. I remember him in all his glory and perfection. This is the way I pray for him, and this is the way he is healed.
How am I able to do this? I am as God created me. I remember that I am even if I don’t yet always act like it, or even feel it. But I accept that it is true, and if it is true for me, it is true for this friend of mine as well. All I have to do is know what is true in the face of what he believes about himself. It isn’t really even hard. If he thought he was blind, but I could see that he only had his eyes closed, would it be hard to know that he could see just fine in spite of his belief?
It is that easy to know the truth of someone and so heal them as the Holy Spirit heals us. I may not yet be able to hold onto the truth of what we are all the time, but I can do it sometimes and when I do, I heal as the Holy Spirit heals. And if I experience doubt and uncertainty, then the healer is unhealed and I return to the Holy Spirit for correction, because he is never uncertain of me.
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