T-12.II.1. Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. 2 If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. 3 Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. 4 If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. 5 The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. 6 The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. 7 Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.
T-12.II.2. The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. 2 If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. 3 For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. 4 He must himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. 5 You can remember this for all the Sonship. 6 Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. 7 But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. 8 This is what you have forgotten. 9 To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. 10 For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God’s Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember.
Paragraph 1 tells me that sickness is a lack of love, that if we knew who we were we could not be sick. “The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth.” So if my son is sick in mind or body and I believe in his sickness and worry about him and try to fix him, I am reinforcing his error that he is not loveable/ is not love.
But if I refuse to believe in his sickness and only believe in his real Self, then I help him heal himself. And yes, the one who is sick must heal himself because he has the truth in him, but if that truth is obscured to him, then our task is to shine a light into their mind. And here is something that is very important: Jesus says that it works because that light is theirs. So, the light in my mind is the light in their mind. The light I shine is the certainty of who we are.
The second paragraph talks about the fog in our mind. The reason we need light is that the light has been obscured. The fog that obscures that light is simply wrong-minded thinking. It is ego beliefs that leave us lost and confused. Sometimes when I forget the truth, it does feel exactly like I am trying to see through a heavy fog.
But the light (the truth) penetrates the fog without regard to how dense it might seem because the fog has no power unless we give it power. We must withdraw that power remembering that God has all power, is all power. Our job is to remember this for all the Sonship. So, if my son expresses his concern that he is looking for a job in a depressed job market and I believe he has a valid point, then we are both looking at the situation through the fog of ego thinking.
The more we believe that idea, the stronger it becomes in our minds and in everyone’s mind throughout the Sonship. However, if I remember who we are as the Sons of God, I lessen any power that thought has for both of us and for all of the Sonship. Jesus says, “Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours.”
If I then tell him that the job market is not relevant to him and that there are always positions that need filling and that his talents will be recognized and valued, this is one way of shining a light that obscures the fog for him. Saying the words is not necessary, but sometimes helpful. There may be different words for different people and different circumstances and the Holy Spirit will provide them if they are needed.
The reason that words are not necessarily needed is this: But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. I remember the truth, that is, I remember God and our place in God, and the truth (God) is strengthened in him. Jesus says this is what we have forgotten. It is all-important that we remember it now. How we think, what we believe, reverberates throughout the Sonship. We together forgot God and now we together remember Him.
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