Is there a role for healing, then, that one can use to offer help for someone else? In arrogance the answer must be “no.” But in humility there is indeed a place for helpers. It is like the role that helps in prayer, and lets forgiveness be what it is meant to be. You do not make yourself the bearer of the special gift that brings the healing. You but recognize your oneness with the one who calls for help. For in this oneness is his separate sense dispelled, and it is this that made him sick. There is no point in giving remedy apart from where the source of sickness is, for never thus can it be truly healed.
Healers there are, for they are Sons of God who recognize their Source, and understand that all their Source creates is one with them. This is the remedy that brings relief which cannot fail. It will remain to bless for all eternity. It heals no part, but wholly and forever. Now the cause of every malady has been revealed exactly as it is. And in that place is written now the holy Word of God. Sickness and separation must be healed by love and union. Nothing else can heal as God established healing. Without Him there is no healing, for there is no love.
God’s Voice alone can tell you how to heal. Listen, and you will never fail to bring His kindly remedy to those He sends to you, to let Him heal them, and to bless all those who serve with Him in healing’s name. The body’s healing will occur because its cause has gone. And now without a cause, it cannot come again in different form. Nor will death any more be feared because it has been understood. There is no fear in one who has been truly healed, for love has entered now where idols used to stand, and fear has given way at last to God. (A Course in Miracles, S-3.III.4-6; italics added)
Sickness and suffering are the effect of believing in being separate from Love’s oneness. The antidote is the acceptance of the truth of What we are — Love and nothing else. Love’s oneness dispels the ego and all its effects from belief in separation. As we accept the truth of Love’s oneness within us as our Identity we become Love’s messengers. Love sees sickness, fear, anger and guilt as calls for Love and answers those calls with Love. That is how we bring healing to our brothers and ourselves. Love always joins with Love, for it sees no differences.
While we perceive ourselves in the world of bodies and differences, our role is to open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s guidance. He will teach us how to look at everything in the world with the eyes of Love. He will teach us the forms that will be truly helpful in bringing Love to the world. These forms may be only in thoughts in our minds or they may involve external actions or words shared with those who can be helped by the words. It is not our function to decide on our own what to do or say. It is our function to open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance and follow His lead. This is how we bring healing to the world.
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