“Only salvation can be said to cure.”
Cure is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world
accepts as beneficial. What the world perceives as therapeutic is but
what will make the body “better.” When it tries to heal the mind, it
sees no separation from the body, where it thinks the mind exists. Its
forms of healing thus must substitute illusion for illusion. One belief
in sickness takes another form, and so the patient now perceives
himself as well.
He is not healed. He merely had a dream that he was sick, and
in the dream he found a magic formula to make him well. Yet he has
not awakened from the dream, and so his mind remains exactly as it
was before. He has not seen the light that would awaken him and
end the dream. What difference does the content of a dream make in
reality? One either sleeps or wakens. There is nothing in between.
The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the
dreams of the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. The
dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another
form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams another dream. His happy
dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. They lead
from sleep to gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. And thus they
cure for all eternity.
Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the
mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is
not deceived by forms the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is
absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. Atonement
does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt
that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed. For sickness
now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.
Peace be to you who have been cured in God, and not in idle
dreams. For cure must come from holiness, and holiness can not be
found where sin is cherished. God abides in holy temples. He is
barred where sin has entered. Yet there is no place where He is not.
And therefore sin can have no home in which to hide from His
beneficence. There is no place where holiness is not, and nowhere sin
and sickness can abide.
This is the thought that cures. It does not make distinctions
among unrealities. Nor does it seek to heal what is not sick,
unmindful where the need for healing is. This is no magic. It is
merely an appeal to truth, which cannot fail to heal and heal forever.
It is not a thought which judges an illusion by its size, its seeming
gravity, or anything that is related to the form it takes. It merely
focuses on what it is, and knows that no illusion can be real.
Let us not try today to seek to cure what cannot suffer sickness.
Healing must be sought but where it is, and then applied to what is
sick so that it can be cured. There is no remedy the world provides
that can effect a change in anything. The mind that brings illusions to
the truth is really changed. There is no change but this. For how can
one illusion differ from another but in attributes that have no
substance, no reality, no core, and nothing that is truly different?
Today we seek to change our minds about the source of
sickness, for we seek a cure for all illusions, not another shift among
them. We will try today to find the source of healing, which is in our
minds because our Father placed it there for us. It is not further from
us than ourselves. It is as near to us as our own thoughts, so close it is
impossible to lose. We need but seek it and it must be found.
We will not be misled today by what appears to us as sick. We go
beyond appearances today, and reach the source of healing from
which nothing is exempt. We will succeed to the extent to which we
realize that there can never be a meaningful distinction made
between what is untrue and equally untrue. Here there are no
degrees, and no beliefs that what does not exist is truer in some
forms than others. All of them are false, and can be cured because
they are not true.
So do we lay aside our amulets, our charms and medicines, our
chants and bits of magic in whatever form they took. We will be still
and listen for the Voice of healing which will cure all ills as one,
restoring saneness to the Son of God. No voice but This can cure.
Today we hear a single Voice Which speaks to us of truth where all
illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal quiet home of God.
We waken hearing Him, and let Him speak to us five minutes as
the day begins, and end the day by listening again five minutes more
before we go to sleep. Our only preparation is to let our interfering
thoughts be laid aside, not separately, but all of them as one. They are
the same. We have no need to make them different, and thus delay
the time when we can hear our Father speak to us. We hear Him
now. We come to Him today.
With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts
and listening minds we pray:
“Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.”
And we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection, and with
peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds, nor offer proof
to us that it is real. This will we learn today. And we will say our
prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes to
hear the answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and
in joy. This is the day when healing comes to us. This is the day when
separation ends, and we remember Who we really are.
Brittany Shawley added:
Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.
Peace be to you who have been cured in God, and not in idle dreams. For cure must come from holiness, and holiness can not be found where sin is cherished. God abides in holy temples. He is barred where sin has entered. Yet there is no place where He is not. And therefore sin can have no home in which to hide from His beneficence. There is no place where holiness is not, and nowhere sin and sickness can abide.
With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray: Only salvation can be said to cure. Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.
And we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection, and with peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds, nor offer proof to us that it is real. This will we learn today. And we will say our prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes, to hear the answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and in joy. This is the day when healing comes to us. This is the day when separation ends, and we remember Who we really are.
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