The Healing Example

Chapter 27 – 5. The Healing Example

The only way to heal is to be healed. The miracle extends without your
help, but you are needed that it can begin. Accept the miracle of healing,
and it will go forth because of what it is. It is its nature to extend itself the
instant it is born. And it is born the instant it is offered and received. No one
can ask another to be healed. But he can let himself be healed, and thus
offer the other what he has received. Who can bestow upon another what he
does not have? And who can share what he denies himself? The Holy Spirit
speaks to you. He does not speak to someone else. Yet by your listening His
Voice extends, because you have accepted what He says.
 
Health is the witness unto health. As long as it is unattested, it remains
without conviction. Only when it has been demonstrated is it proved, and
must provide a witness that compels belief. No one is healed through double
messages. If you wish only to be healed, you heal. Your single purpose
makes this possible. But if you are afraid of healing, then it cannot come
through you. The only thing that is required for a healing is a lack of fear.
 
The fearful are not healed, and cannot heal. This does not mean the conflict
must be gone forever from your mind to heal. For if it were, there were no
need for healing then. But it does mean, if only for an instant, you love
without attack. An instant is sufficient. Miracles wait not on time.
 
The holy instant is the miracle’s abiding place. From there, each one is born
into this world as witness to a state of mind that has transcended conflict,
and has reached to peace. It carries comfort from the place of peace into the
battleground, and demonstrates that war has no effects. For all the hurt that
war has sought to bring, the broken bodies and the shattered limbs, the
screaming dying and the silent dead, are gently lifted up and comforted.
 
There is no sadness where a miracle has come to heal. And nothing more
than just one instant of your love without attack is necessary that all this
occur. In that one instant you are healed, and in that single instant is all
healing done. What stands apart from you, when you accept the blessing
that the holy instant brings? Be not afraid of blessing, for the One Who
blesses you loves all the world, and leaves nothing within the world that
could be feared. But if you shrink from blessing, will the world indeed seem
fearful, for you have withheld its peace and comfort, leaving it to die.
 
Would not a world so bitterly bereft be looked on as a condemnation by the
one who could have saved it, but stepped back because he was afraid of
being healed? The eyes of all the dying bring reproach, and suffering
whispers, “What is there to fear? “Consider well its question. It is asked of
you on your behalf. A dying world asks only that you rest an instant from
attack upon yourself, that it be healed.
 
Come to the holy instant and be healed, for nothing that is there received is
left behind on your returning to the world. And being blessed you will bring
blessing. Life is given you to give the dying world. And suffering eyes no
longer will accuse, but shine in thanks to you who blessing gave. The holy
instant’s radiance will light your eyes, and give them sight to see beyond all
suffering and see Christ’s face instead. Healing replaces suffering. Who
looks on one cannot perceive the other, for they cannot both be there. And
what you see the world will witness, and will witness to.
 
Thus is your healing everything the world requires, that it may be healed. It
needs one lesson that has perfectly been learned. And then, when you forget
it, will the world remind you gently of what you have taught. No
reinforcement will its thanks withhold from you who let yourself be healed
that it might live. It will call forth its witnesses to show the face of Christ to
you who brought the sight to them, by which they witnessed it. The world
of accusation is replaced by one in which all eyes look lovingly upon the
Friend who brought them their release. And happily your brother will
perceive the many friends he thought were enemies.
 
Problems are not specific but they take specific forms, and these specific
shapes make up the world. And no one understands the nature of his
problem. If he did, it would be there no more for him to see. Its very nature
is that it is not. And thus, while he perceives it he can not perceive it as it is.
 
But healing is apparent in specific instances, and generalizes to include
them all. This is because they really are the same, despite their different
forms. All learning aims at transfer, which becomes complete within two
situations that are seen as one, for only common elements are there. Yet this
can only be attained by One Who does not see the differences you see. The
total transfer of your learning is not made by you. But that it has been made
in spite of all the differences you see, convinces you that they could not be
real.
 
Your healing will extend, and will be brought to problems that you thought
were not your own. And it will also be apparent that your many different
problems will be solved as any one of them has been escaped. It cannot be
their differences which made this possible, for learning does not jump from
situations to their opposites and bring the same results. All healing must
proceed in lawful manner, in accord with laws that have been properly
perceived but never violated. Fear you not the way that you perceive them.
You are wrong, but there is One within you Who is right.
 
Leave, then, the transfer of your learning to the One Who really understands
its laws, and Who will guarantee that they remain unviolated and unlimited.
Your part is merely to apply what He has taught you to yourself, and He
will do the rest. And it is thus the power of your learning will be proved to
you by all the many different witnesses it finds. Your brother first among
them will be seen, but thousands stand behind him, and beyond each one of
them there are a thousand more. Each one may seem to have a problem that
is different from the rest. Yet they are solved together. And their common
answer shows the questions could not have been separate.
 
Peace be to you to whom is healing offered. And you will learn that peace is
given you when you accept the healing for yourself. Its total value need not
be appraised by you to let you understand that you have benefited from it.
What occurred within the instant that love entered in without attack will
stay with you forever. Your healing will be one of its effects, as will your
brother’s. Everywhere you go, will you behold its multiplied effects. Yet all
the witnesses that you behold will be far less than all there really are.
 
Infinity cannot be understood by merely counting up its separate parts. God
thanks you for your healing, for He knows it is a gift of love unto His Son,
and therefore is it given unto Him.