When I am healed,
I am not healed.
Today's idea remains the central thought on which salvation rests,
For healing is the opposite of all the world's ideas,
Which dwell on sickness and on separate states.
Sickness is a retreat from others and a shutting off of joining.
Sickness becomes a door that closes on a separate self and keeps it isolated and alone.
Sickness is isolation,
For it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest,
To suffer what the others do not feel.
Sickness gives the body final power to make the separation real and keep the mind in solitary prison,
Split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh,
Which it cannot surmount.
The world obeys the laws that sickness serves,
But healing operates apart from these laws.
It is impossible that anyone be healed alone.
In sickness must we be apart and separate,
But healing is our own decision to be one again,
And to accept our self with all its parts intact and unassailed.
In sickness does our self appear to be dismembered and without the unity that gives it life,
But healing is accomplished as we see that the body has no power to attack the universal oneness of God's child.
Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth,
But healing demonstrates that truth is true.
The separation sickness would impose has never really happened.
To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth,
And always will remain exactly as it has forever been.
Yet,
Eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false.
So healing,
Never needed by the truth,
Must demonstrate that sickness is not real.
Healing might thus be called a counter-dream,
Which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth,
But not in truth itself.
Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished,
Healing removes illusions that have not occurred.
Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all,
Healing offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas,
Which dreams embroider into the pictures of the truth.
Think not healing is unworthy of your function here,
For antichrist becomes more powerful than Christ.
To those who dream the world is real.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
Say again,
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
The body seems to be more solid and more stable than the mind.
Love becomes a dream,
While fear remains the one reality that can be seen and justified and fully understood.
Just as forgiveness shines away all sin,
And the real world will occupy the place of what you made,
So healing must replace the fantasies of sickness which you hold before the simple truth.
When sickness has been seen to disappear in spite of all the laws that hold it must be real,
Then questions have been answered and the laws can no longer be cherished nor obeyed.
Healing is freedom.
Healing demonstrates that dreams will not prevail against the truth.
Healing is shared,
And by this attribute healing proves that laws,
Unlike the ones which hold that sickness is inevitable,
Are more potent laws than their sickly opposites.
Healing is strength,
For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome,
And by healing's gentle hand minds that were walled off within a body are now free to join with other minds to be forever strong.
Healing,
Forgiveness,
And the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him.
The Holy Spirit's gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours.
The Holy Spirit's lessons teach you how little practice you need undertake to let the Holy Spirit's laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death.
The Holy Spirit's life becomes your own as you extend the little help He asks for to free you from everything that ever caused you pain.
Say to yourself again,
As you let yourself be healed,
You see all those around you,
Or who cross your mind,
All those whom you touch,
Or whom you seem to have no contact with,
You see them heal along with you.
Perhaps you will not recognize them all,
Nor realize how great your offering is to all the world when you let healing come to you.
But you are never healed alone.
And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.
Those who are healed become the instruments of healing.
Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed and all the grace of healing it is given to them to give.
What is opposed to God does not exist.
And the one who does not accept what is opposed to God in their mind becomes a haven where the weary can remain to rest.
For here is truth bestowed,
And here are all illusions brought to truth.
Would you not offer shelter to God's will?
You invite yourself to be at home.
Now,
Can this invitation be refused?
Ask the inevitable to occur,
And you will never fail.
The other choice is to ask what cannot be to be.
This cannot succeed.
Today we ask that only truth will occupy our minds.
We ask that the thoughts of healing will this day go forth from what is healed to what must yet be healed,
Aware that they will both occur as one.
We will remember,
As the hour strikes,
Our function is to let our minds be healed that we may carry healing to the world,
Exchanging curse for blessing,
Exchanging pain for joy,
Exchanging separation for the peace of God.
Is not a minute of the hour worth the giving to receive a gift like this?
Is not a little time a small expense to offer for the gift of everything?
We must be prepared for such a gift,
And so we will begin the day with this and give ten minutes to these thoughts,
With which we will conclude at night as well.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
I would share my healing with the world.
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
I would share my healing with the world.
That sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one son,
Who is my only self.
Ponder on this,
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
Let healing be through you this very day.
As you rest in quiet,
Be prepared to give as you receive,
To hold,
But what you give.
Be prepared to receive the word of God,
To take the place of all the foolish thoughts that were ever imagined.
Now,
We come together to make well all that was sick.
We come together to offer blessing where there was attack,
Or will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by.
We remember our purpose with this thought.
Say in your mind after me,
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
I would bless my brothers and sisters,
For I would be healed with them,
As they are healed with me.
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
Ponder on this,
I would bless my brothers and sisters,
For I would be healed with them,
As they are healed with me.
When I am healed,
I am not healed alone.
