IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 9
9 The unification of purpose, then, is the Holy Spirit’s only way of healing. This is because it is the only level at which healing means anything. The re-establishing of meaning in a chaotic thought system is the way to heal it. Your task is only to meet the conditions for meaning, since meaning itself is of God. Yet your return to meaning is essential to His, because your meaning is part of His. Your healing, then, is part of His health, since it is part of His Wholeness. He cannot lose this, but you can not know it. Yet it is still His Will for you, and His Will must stand forever and in all things.
I have a chaotic thought system because my thoughts are always conflicted. There is very little that I want wholly. I want to wake up, but I also want to dream. I want to be happy, but I also want my drama. I want to be right more than I want to be happy. Now, I am moving toward a single purpose, but I have not fully accepted that this is what I want, and it is absolutely necessary that I do so. I cannot have a healed mind unless I choose a single purpose.
There really is not any question about the purpose I choose. No one can choose only ego, because reality is in my mind. In fact, the only thing in the mind that is real is God, and in spite of our desire to experience something else, we have never lost what is true. We remain as we were created, part of His Wholeness.
The healing that occurs is the release of all that we dreamed and the acceptance of all that is Reality. I am beginning to dream of a mind without conflict. Can you imagine? I know this is possible because it is what God created and it is His Will for me. Over and over I choose peace over conflict, I choose a single purpose.
How do I do this? I have spent the weekend with my brother and his wife. Mike had surgery and Rebecca has MS. He didn’t want Rebecca to be alone at night while he was in the hospital so I stayed with them. Being at the hospital with him during the day offered many opportunities to look at my belief in the body, and my belief that something outside the body could actually be cause.
This environment is built around just that concept, and as we sat there and watched the nurses and doctors and as our own stories of pain and suffering were triggered, I saw that my mind was conflicted and I had more than one purpose. At one time, my mind would have looked like a pin ball machine, with the ball bouncing all over the place leaving me confused and anxious. But through the healing of the mind I was able to do this differently.
I simply watched. I watched my desire to join in the one up-man-ship as each person told their story. I watched all the old stories in my mind that seemed to prove sickness comes from something in the world. I watched the memories of feeling frail and vulnerable. I watched all this and I was not altogether surprised at what came up, but I was also pleased to see that I also saw the truth. I gave the dark thoughts to the light. I remembered that I have one purpose and I was able to let everything else go.
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