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Study of the Text 2-6-13

2-6-13
9 Healing is an ability that developed after the separation, before which it was unnecessary. Like all aspects of the belief in space and time, it is temporary. However, as long as time persists, healing is needed as a means of protection. This is because healing rests on charity, and charity is a way of perceiving the perfection of another even if you cannot perceive it in yourself. Most of the loftier concepts of which you are capable now are time-dependent. Charity is really a weaker reflection of a much more powerful love-encompassment that is far beyond any form of charity you can conceive of as yet. Charity is essential to right-mindedness in the limited sense in which it can now be attained.

I am intrigued by the sentence that says, in part,
… charity is a way of perceiving the perfection of another even if you cannot perceive it in yourself.
My first reaction was surprise. How could this be? How could I perceive someone as perfect if I were unable to perceive my own perfection? But thinking about it, I realized that I do this. I probably do this nearly every time I pray for someone else. My prayer is not words so much as it is a certainty that this person is perfect as God created her and therefore she cannot be limited in the way she believes she is.

I am not just saying those words, I know those words are true. I feel them to the very core of me. And this is true even if I am in crisis. In my prayer for this person, I step out of my self, and allow truth to flow through me. It may be only temporary, and depending on the depth of my own personal fear, I may go back to my own crisis after the prayer. Or sitting in the truth for that moment may be enough to wake me up from my own nightmare.

I think it can happen like this because when I am in crisis I have temporary amnesia. The truth hasn’t gone anyplace and is still in my mind. The need for it brings it forward in my mind. My desire to be helpful clears my mind enough to allow Spirit to work through me. If I am in a lot of fear at the time, the fear may roll back over the truth but it may not.

As I think about this, I realize that this has always been true, even before I had any understanding of it, even when my faith was weak. I am sure that this is because the truth does not need my understanding. All that is required of me is that I want the miracle for the one I pray for, and that my desire for the miracle be strong in that moment. I don’t think it has anything to do with my “abilities” at all. In fact I don’t think it has anything to do with “me” at all. In prayer, or miracles, I willingly step back and allow it to flow through without help or hindrance.

Something else I notice is that doing this for others increased my willingness to be the healer, as it increased my willingness to be healed.

Healing and miracles are temporary help and will no longer be necessary when we wake up. Charity is a bit of Love, not the whole thing, a kind of shadow of the real thing. When we are no longer believe in time and space we will no longer need healing or miracles, and we will experience Charity differently, but right now they are an essential part of our awakening process.

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