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A Course in Miracles Lesson #137
“When I am healed I am not healed alone.”
Today I was led to read Liz Cronkhite's blog on A Course in Miracles.
In it she reminds us to not allow the "ego" to bring us guilt when we are experiencing sickness in our life. These teachings we're studying are so pure that we tend to think we'll never be sick again, we'll never be unhappy again, we'll never have a need which is not immediately met. It's easy to feel this way when our first initiation into this way of thought is accompanyed by immediate physical relief of whatever malady we may have been suffering. I have a friend who recently was introduced to this Truth and experienced relief from a long-standing physical problem which has caused her much pain through the years. Certainly when this happens, we are very grateful for the peace it brings. Christian Science has been propounded as a healing Science since its discovery in 1865. That is because the knowledge of the Truth of our Being replaces erroneous thought and allows harmony to prevail in every way. Although I, personally, have never felt guilt when I have a cold, I suppose there are those who might. There are at least two books on the market which tell of the horrors of growing up in a household which practiced divinely scientific healing. In the many families I've known where Christian Science is the way of life, people haven't beat themselves up over illness and have visited doctors when they felt the need. I tell you this to emphasis that it's not physical healing we're striving for, but a greater understanding of Truth, of God. As this understanding is attained through the opening of thought to it, many adjustments take place simultaneously. I urge you to be truly open to the guidance which is always there. Just because I'm not led to go to a doctor doesn't mean you won't hear that call! Listen and act, on whatever that may be.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the coming anew of the gospel of "on earth peace, good-will toward men." This coming, as was promised by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,--to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world."
Science & Health Page 150:4-17
