Is time a factor in healing?

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Does time play a factor in healing?  To popular belief, yes, as in the old saying that time heals.

However, to Christian Science the answer is no.  Healing is the spiritualization of
thought.  It is a revelation.  In fact healing is just the side effect of some new discovery about the spiritual facts of our being and existence.  It is God understood in a new way and/or a clearer understanding of who or what man is and our unchanging, permanent relationship or oneness to God.

In a Bible study workshop we had to clarify the meaning of healing.  One person used great and useful catch phrases: instead of healing, it’s revealing / not recovery but discovery.  This is so true and important in the expectation of healing.  If we start with matter that is in pain, uncomfortable, not working properly, than we are starting from the wrong premise and it makes the spiritual “work” laborious and unfruitful.

The Christian Science textbook teaches,

“Metaphysics is above physics, and matter does not enter into metaphysical
premises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind.  Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.” (Pg 269)

Therefore, our starting point is divine Mind.  What is divine Mind seeing and knowing?  Of course it is only perfection and good, joy and freedom since God is the only creator.  So how do we see and know this substance of being more clearly?

The textbook continues to instruct:

“The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.” (Pg. 275)

As we begin from this starting point, that is when revelation or understanding happens.  And healing occurs.  In most Christian Science testimonies you will here the person say they are grateful for their physical problem being resolved but they are even more grateful for the spiritual truth that they have learned; for the piece of eternity and the spiritual fact of our existence they have gleaned.  This new idea or understanding carries over into all aspects of their life instead of just the
one physical challenge.  It gives them a sense of permanent security and oneness of God that affects all areas of life and being.

Some healings may appear to take longer.  Christian Science isn’t a quick fix for our material problems, or to make our material lives more comfy.  Lots of healings do happen very quickly, faster even than is predicted by standard care.

Why?  What is the seeming element of time?  Well, time isn’t a factor at all actually.  It is the spiritualization of thought, the light of the Christ that shines into our consciousness that does the healing work.  “It is a spiritual idea that lights our path” (Angels, Miscellaneous Writings, p. 306) There is no separation between us and God which is why healing can happen instantaneously.  But I began thinking of the terms instantaneously and immediately a little differently and not in terms of time.

I heard a great audio chat on spirituality.com where the speaker, Bruce Fitzwater, CSB referred to ‘immediately’ not being a time reference but instead that there is
no middle-man (media referring to medium) between us and God.  God’s information or truth or healing light isn’t passing through something or someone to get to us, but is in fact at one with us all the time.

And instantaneous is the same way.  To me it signifies no separation between God and His ideas, divine Mind and His ideas.  God is being conscious of Himself always and this consciousness is at one with His reflection, man.  Therefore, God’s thoughts or angel messages are being communicated all the time and there is no separation or distance this needs to travel.

I enjoyed getting this clearer sense of how time (being material) has no relation to
healing.  So what about healings that seem to take a bit longer?  Well, healing is the spiritualization of thought so we can set our focus on that – the spiritual lessons we are learning; the spiritual joy we are finding; the security we are feeling from learning about our spiritual identity and of God’s unchanging, perfect love – instead of focusing on matter or time.  And that makes prayer and spiritual
healing happy and uplifting – when we start with Spirit/God as all that there
is then we are on the joyous discovery of our eternal substance, nature and
being.

PS – Eternity referring to an absence of time and not a really long time.

Spiritual Daily Lift » 4/12: Going up

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I love this idea today.  Lifting our thought up above our own selfish concerns so that we may be a service to others.  I enjoy the reminder that our happiness comes from when others are happy — seeing happiness all around us.  Giving is what really enriches our experience and makes us feel good, spiritual, happy, whole and at peace.  And often we find we are then healed too when our thought has been taken off ourselves.  Job’s healing came about after he prayed for his friends. (Job 42:10)  And Mary Baker Eddy states: “blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.” (p. 518)

What a wonderful Daily Lift today and reminder about lifting our thought up!


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God is real!

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God is real.  This is a powerful and bold statement.  I thought I had faith and an understanding of God before, but this is profound.  When I realize that God is real, God is alive and well and here and now and God is governing and controlling all ideas – that is huge!  The meaning and implication of this is phenomenal.  That means that God is speaking to us always.  God is loving us because God is love and we are God’s beloved creation.  Therefore how can anything bad happen to us or be part of our experience?  It can’t!  And when we challenge that statement we will see the effects of it in our lives.

I realized today that we are never healing anything.  Our thought is becoming spiritualized so that we see and know that God’s spiritual creation is all that has ever existed and will ever exist.  It has never been interrupted or changed.  All is constant and consistent harmonious good.  And how can it be otherwise since God is actually real?

I think before I was thinking that God was more of a theory instead of an actual living presence which thinks and sees and knows all.

So why do I worry?  Of course God knows that I need x amount of dollars to pay rent. Of course God knows that I need to go there or get here.  It is God who is sending me and guiding me to these places so that I can be a blessing to others and be blessed (see and know good!).  I am always where God wants me and needs me, so I can expect that each event or activity is already full or spirit, life, vitality, harmony and healing (spiritualization & movement of thought).

God is good and since God created man in his own image and likeness, good is all that man can be.   Good is all that our neighbor can be or our community.  What about terrorists, extremists and other people doing evil around the world?

Well these are good people who just aren’t listening to God.   They are sort of blinded and mesmerized by hate and fear.  There is nothing wrong with them. They just need to be awakened to the sense that everything is ok.  God has created everything perfectly.  God is loving them and caring for themjust as He is to all of us.  They don’t need to feel it’s their responsibility to govern and take care of the universe.  It’s not their responsibility to determine who or what is right or wrong.  God is doing that.  God is revealing and sustaining all things.  The pressure is not up to us.  God sustains and maintains his creation.  Therefore we aren’t going to end up in some devastation and we don’t need to be afraid.

I saw a wonderful healing when a patient was healed of a cold after I realized that God sustains and maintains his creation – business, supply and family are all sustained and upheld by Love, God.

Therefore we don’t need to worry or fear that we are plummeting in desperation.  The first and the last and is God’s spiritual perfect creation.  And God is real and true and is helping us to realize and see that is all there is right now.  There never has been a moment of parting or separation from God.