HOW IS HEALING ACCOMPLISHED?

3. The Function of the Teacher of God (continued)

Not once do the advanced teachers of God consider the forms of sickness in which their brothers believes.

To do this is to forget that all of them have the same purpose and therefore are not really different.

They seek for God's Voice in this brother who would so deceived himself as to believe God's Son can suffer.

And they remind him that he has not made himself, and must remain as God created him. They recognize illusions can have no effect.

The truth in their minds reaches out to the truth in the minds of their brothers, so that illusions are not reinforced.

They are thus brought to truth, and truth is not brought to them.

So are they (illusions of sickness and guilt both) dispelled, not by the will of another, but by the union of the One Will with Itself.

And this is the function of God's teachers; to see no will as separate from their own, nor theirs as separate from God.

IS HEALING CERTAIN?

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 t he 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 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.