The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them. It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again, and to accept his Self with all Its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismembered, and without the unity that gives It life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the universal Oneness of God’s Son.
Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137, W-pI.137.3,9. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights.)
The images of the world seem to be strong evidence that we are separate individuals, limited to bodies and vulnerable to all kinds of outside influences. When the Course tells us that this world is unreal and we are not bodies, it seems hard to believe. A magician uses slight of hand to make an illusion seem real. We are doing the same thing to ourselves when we believe the world is real.
Fortunately we have the Holy Spirit in our minds, ready to show us the truth that lies beyond the slight of hand that has us convinced we are not the Self that Love created. We each must reach a turning point that brings us to the willingness to ask for help to see past the sad, painful, fearful and vulnerable world that we seem to be in. When we are willing, the Holy Spirit will give us His gentle lessons that teach us we remain whole, at one with our brothers in our one Self.
Today we will remind ourselves often that we are not a body. We are one Self in the one Mind of Love. We are willing to receive the vision that shows us this is true. We are willing to learn another way of seeing that welcomes the truth.
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