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Study of Text: C 15, VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 7. 3-2-18

VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 7
7 It is through us that peace will come. Join me in the idea of peace, for in ideas minds can communicate. If you would give yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand Selfhood. And therein is love’s meaning understood. But remember that understanding is of the mind, and only of the mind. Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it. If you were not an idea, and nothing but an idea, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was. Yet as long as you prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else together, you will not remember the language of communication, which you know perfectly.

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We think we are communicating when we talk to each other, but Jesus is explaining to us that this is not communication. Communication is of the mind; it is ideas in the mind, shared within the mind. This is hard to grasp while we are confused about our very nature. While I think I am a body, I can only use words to try to communicate and that is not very effective.

Words have different meanings to different people and even to oneself at different times and under different circumstances. They differ according to culture as well. We use words to convey what we think of as truth but we also use them to convey what we want others to believe rather than what is actually true. Words are very unreliable.

Eventually, everyone begins to accept that they are not just a body. They begin to see themselves as body and spirit, or maybe body, mind, and spirit. This is a step forward but is not the truth, so communication remains imperfect. There are still misunderstandings and the sense of union that comes from true sharing is fleeting and easily disrupted through miscommunication.

What we are is an idea in the Mind of God. At first, I didn’t understand this at all. I was too immersed in the idea of form. I felt like I was the image I had made of myself rather than the maker of the image. How could a body be an idea? The body seemed so substantial, so real. And yet, I am beginning to understand that form is the illusion and ideas are the substantial reality.

With this understanding, I am able to more often choose peace, whereas before, I didn’t know peace was a choice. I thought I was peaceful when the images I made were peaceful. I thought I taught peace when I talked about peace or spoke in a peaceful manner. Now I see differently. If I notice that I am not at peace I remember what I am, and in making that choice I become aware of peace. My awareness of peace is communicated and ripples throughout the mind where it is shared with all. This is communication.

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Manual for Teachers: 7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 3. 3-1-18

7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 3
3 It is in this that the teacher of God must trust. This is what is really meant by the statement that the one responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. The teacher of God is a miracle worker because he gives the gifts he has received. Yet he must first accept them. He need do no more, nor is there more that he could do. By accepting healing he can give it. If he doubts this, let him remember Who gave the gift and Who received it. Thus is his doubt corrected. He thought the gifts of God could be withdrawn. That was a mistake, but hardly one to stay with. And so the teacher of God can only recognize it for what it is, and let it be corrected for him.

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The teachers of God give only what they have accepted for themselves. That is why our only function in this world is to accept the Atonement for ourselves. Having done this we just naturally give what has been given us and we become miracle workers. We heal because we have been healed.

There will be times when we might slip back into ego thinking and that’s OK. We simply ask for correction and accept it, just as we have learned to do. When we doubt our ability to heal something or someone or we doubt that it can be healed, this is just another slip into ego. Believing that we must repeat healing is also a slip into ego. The solution remains the same; we accept the Atonement in this situation.

What I have noticed is that when someone asks for prayers for something that is still an issue for me, I feel doubt, and I may want to offer warnings or ways to fix the situation in a worldly way. For instance, I used to feel confused about relationships and if someone asked for help in that area I would suggest another person they could talk to.

As I accepted the Atonement in my relationships and they healed, I became clear in that area and now I don’t hesitate to work with someone on theirs. If they trigger something in me, I feel it and I step back to receive healing myself. Generally, this doesn’t take very long at all because of the healing I have already received.

Now when this happens, I am very grateful to see what I need to heal in my own mind. The last time it happened, I felt some general discomfort as the person was talking to me about her issues, so I asked the Holy Spirit to show me what I needed to see. I had a quick memory of a time when something similar happened to me and had never been forgiven. I forgave it and then I was ready to offer the healing I had accepted for myself.

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