December 23, 2014
The idea of sickness has always been a difficult one for most Course students. The Course clearly tells us that sickness is an illusion, it is not real. We confuse body sickness with mind sickness. And mind sickness is simply believing the idea that we are not who we really are, One with the One and each other with no separation. As I have said many times, sickness is solely of the mind. Sickness may or may not be reflected in the body just as healing may or may not be reflected in the body. However, healing will most definitely be reflected in the mind as peace and joy, no matter what the body experiences. Remember, the Course teaches that the body, though an illusion, can be used by Spirit for holy purpose. If we adhere to a rigid idea that the body we are using as a learning device is the ultimate manifestation of our Spiritual health, we are identifying with and as the bodyand are therefore sck.
We must ultimately dissociate with the body to realize the end of our belief in separation. The Curse tells us, “I am not a body, I am free.” And so we are not our physical ailments either. I am reminded of a story about a Buddhist monk who was dying of cancer when a student asked him how he bore the suffering of his pain. The monk replied that he was experiencing bodily pain, but he was not suffering because he knew he was whole and his mind was at peace. The pain was simply of the body. Many go through life with physical imperfections, yet identify as the whole Child of the One they truly are. They are able to let go of their attachment to the idea that the body must be whole for their mind to be whole. We must look beyond the appearance of the body to the truth about ourselves that lies beyond appearances.
Christmas is just a few days away. We just passed the winter Solstice. We are moving to a time of new beginnings, to new births. Are we willing to allow Spirit to guide us in a spiritual rebirth, a reawakening to the awareness of who we really are? This is really what we are asked to do. This is our true plan for salvation. Our rebirth is the reawakening to the awareness of our Oneness with the One and all of Creation. As we remain in the physical form for just awhile longer, we shine the light of peace, joy and love with all who are willing to see as a beacon for them to follow to the reawakening of their own awareness of who they really are.
The Foundation for Inner Peace sent the following messages from the Course relating to Christmas.
“The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in the darkness. See it not outside yourself but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come.” (T-15.XI.2:1-2)
“It is in your power to make this season holy.” (T-15.X.4.1)
Let your mind remember lesson 61 in the Workbook, “I am the light of the world.” We are nothing more, nothing less than just that, the light of the world. The healing of sickness s simply reawakening to the awareness that we truly are the light of the world. This holiday season be just that, the light you really are.
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