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April-June, 2013

Why Do Some People Get Sick and Others Don’t

by Rev. Peggy Rivera, O.M.C.

Lately I have wondered why some people get sick and others seem to live their lives free of disease. I noticed that it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with how spiritual they are or how nice they are or how good they are. It just seems to have no rhyme or reason. When I think that in order to heal my afflictions I must pray, reflect and change my thoughts, I get a little upset and ask myself, “Why do I have to be good when there are people who are really bad and they don’t seem to have any problems?”

A friend of mine recently said she thought that some people seem to get away with anything they want. No matter what they do to anyone else, they seem to be healthy, happy, and often times wealthy. I went to Holy Spirit with this. I said, “How do I respond to this, Holy Spirit? How can I tell someone else to Love unconditionally when good people seem to suffer and bad people seem to skate through life unscathed? Why is it that a good, kind person can suffer from awful diseases like terminal cancer and others who are not so nice can live seemingly healthy happy lives?”

Holy Spirit responded with, You are judging one or the other. There is no place for judgment in the mind of God. Remember that this world is an illusion made by a thought of something that can never be. If we are all one mind, there really are no differences between us. It is when you perceive separation that a conflict can seem to occur.

The world is full of sickness and death and when we focus our attention on the life we seem to experience on earth, we will experience sickness and pain and death. But we can learn to focus on what we really are, which is eternal Love. So the thoughts that some people seem to get away with everything is really the same thoughts of judgment that we are separate.

Today I practice Loving more fully. Today I practice seeing the Light in all that I see. One day at a time I choose Love. I thank you Father for Loving me and the entire Sonship. In Love we heal each other and ourselves.

In ACIM Workbook for Students, page 87 number 5 it says, My thoughts are images that I have made. Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him.

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