Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal the Son of God. And he is healed because you offered faith to him, giving him to the Holy Spirit and releasing him from every demand your ego would make of him. Thus do you see him free, and in this vision does the Holy Spirit share. …It is this joining Him in a united purpose that makes this purpose real, because you make it whole. And [making whole] is healing. The body is healed because you came without it, and joined the Mind in which all healing rests.
Faithlessness [perceiving a brother as a body] would always limit and attack; faith would remove all limitations and make whole. Faithlessness would destroy and separate; faith would unite and heal. Faithlessness would interpose illusions between the Son of God and his Creator; faith would remove all obstacles that seem to rise between them. Faithlessness is wholly dedicated to illusions; faith wholly [dedicated] to truth. Partial dedication is impossible. Truth is the absence of illusion; illusion the absence of truth. Both cannot be together, nor perceived in the same place. To dedicate yourself to both [illusions and truth] is to set up a goal forever impossible to attain, for part of it [illusion] is sought through the body, thought of as a means for seeking out reality through attack. The other part [the goal of truth] would heal, and therefore calls upon the mind and not the body. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.I.2:1-3,5-7;5:3-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
To have faith in our brother is to have faith in the truth in him — Love and nothing else. Faith in illusion is faith in nothing and is therefore faithlessness. Nothing real can come from an illusion.
To see a brother as a body and respond to what the body does is to put faith in an illusion. This is faithlessness. This perpetuates the perception of separation and makes healing impossible. Healing is of the mind and comes with putting our faith in the truth. As we let the Holy Spirit guide our vision, we see the truth of Love and join with It in Its oneness. To fully experience this, we must be wholly dedicated to seeing only Love, to having faith only in Love’s oneness.
Let us today join with the Holy Spirit in our dedication to truth. This is how we give and receive the gift of healing. This is how we remember only Love is real.
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