Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.
The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. …To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God.
Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.II.1;2:1,9;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Sickness is a call for Love just as anger, hatred, fear and guilt are calls for Love. Any appearance that does not evoke a response of Love in us is our own call for Love. As we learn to let the Holy Spirit judge all appearances on our behalf, He teaches us to recognize every call for Love and answer with Love. With this practice, we learn that Love is not only in us, but It is What we are. We join with the Holy Spirit in the healing of the world by learning to look past our interpretations of appearances to the changeless unity of Love.
When we accepted the ego’s belief in separation, we made a world of images that we believe are separate from us. When we learn to overlook the appearance of separation with the Holy Spirit’s vision, we see the Love that is our brother. Because that Love is all that is real, we learn of the Love we are. Thus our own healing is served each time we answer a brother’s call for Love with Love. We join with the Holy Spirit in saving the world from the denial of Love. We remember God when we remember we are Love and nothing else.
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