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<center>'''Is Healing Certain?'''</center>
Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth
and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates illusions have no value. The
teacher of God has seen the correction of his errors in the mind of the
patient, recognizing it for what it is. Having accepted the Atonement for
himself, he has also accepted it for the patient. Yet what if the patient uses
sickness as a way of life, believing healing is the way to death? When this is
so, a sudden healing might precipitate intense depression, and a sense of
loss so deep that the patient might even try to destroy himself. Having
nothing to live for, he may ask for death. Healing must wait, for his
protection.
Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat. The instant
it is welcome it is there. Where healing has been given it will be received.
And what is time before the gifts of God? We have referred many times in
the text to the storehouse of treasures laid up equally for the giver and the
receiver of God's gifts. Not one is lost, for they can but increase. No teacher
of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing and it does not
appear to have been received. It is not up to him to judge when his gift
should be accepted. Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it
will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.
It is not the function of God's teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts.
It is merely their function to give them. Once they have done that they have
also given the outcome, for that is part of the gift. No one can give if he is
concerned with the result of giving. That is a limitation on the giving itself,
and neither the giver nor the receiver would have the gift. Trust is an
essential part of giving; in fact, it is the part that makes sharing possible, the
part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. Who gives a gift
and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems
appropriate? Such is not giving but imprisoning.
It is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given.
And it is trust that makes true giving possible. Healing is the change of
mind that the Holy Spirit in the patient's mind is seeking for him. And it is
the Holy Spirit in the mind of the giver Who gives the gift to him. How can
it be lost ? How can it be ineffectual? How can it be wasted? God's treasure
house can never be empty. And if one gift is missing, it would not be full.
Yet is its fullness guaranteed by God. What concern, then, can a teacher of
God have about what becomes of his gifts? Given by God to God, who in
this holy exchange can receive less than everything?
[[Category:Manual for Teachers]]
<center>'''Is Healing Certain?'''</center>
Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth
and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates illusions have no value. The
teacher of God has seen the correction of his errors in the mind of the
patient, recognizing it for what it is. Having accepted the Atonement for
himself, he has also accepted it for the patient. Yet what if the patient uses
sickness as a way of life, believing healing is the way to death? When this is
so, a sudden healing might precipitate intense depression, and a sense of
loss so deep that the patient might even try to destroy himself. Having
nothing to live for, he may ask for death. Healing must wait, for his
protection.
Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat. The instant
it is welcome it is there. Where healing has been given it will be received.
And what is time before the gifts of God? We have referred many times in
the text to the storehouse of treasures laid up equally for the giver and the
receiver of God's gifts. Not one is lost, for they can but increase. No teacher
of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing and it does not
appear to have been received. It is not up to him to judge when his gift
should be accepted. Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it
will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.
It is not the function of God's teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts.
It is merely their function to give them. Once they have done that they have
also given the outcome, for that is part of the gift. No one can give if he is
concerned with the result of giving. That is a limitation on the giving itself,
and neither the giver nor the receiver would have the gift. Trust is an
essential part of giving; in fact, it is the part that makes sharing possible, the
part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. Who gives a gift
and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems
appropriate? Such is not giving but imprisoning.
It is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given.
And it is trust that makes true giving possible. Healing is the change of
mind that the Holy Spirit in the patient's mind is seeking for him. And it is
the Holy Spirit in the mind of the giver Who gives the gift to him. How can
it be lost ? How can it be ineffectual? How can it be wasted? God's treasure
house can never be empty. And if one gift is missing, it would not be full.
Yet is its fullness guaranteed by God. What concern, then, can a teacher of
God have about what becomes of his gifts? Given by God to God, who in
this holy exchange can receive less than everything?
[[Category:Manual for Teachers]]
