A healing consciousness is focused not so much on the description of the illness or problem, as it is on the prescription, the remedy. Not description, but prescription. And God is always the best prescription.
How can we find our healing power? We allow ourselves to be taught by the Spirit of truth within us. Sometimes that presence will instruct us in lawful ways. It is logical that our health will improve if we eat better, exercise, nurture ourselves, meditate more, and so forth.
And other times, our healing will surprise us because it will show up in seemingly miraculous ways—through the power of grace. Also, in some instances, we have more of a process to work through because of inner resistance.
Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, refused to accept the diagnosis of terminal tuberculosis. At 42, she was told she had only months to live since she had inherited this illness that others in her family suffered from. She went to a lecture by a man named E.B. Weeks, and he made the statement, “You are a child of God and therefore you do not inherit sickness.” It was a revelation to her, and she went home and began speaking this affirmation daily, “I am a child of God and therefore I do not inherit sickness.” She called upon the life force in her cells, realizing that there was a directing intelligence that she could invoke. She spoke words of truth, of strength, of life to all of the cells and organs of her body. And within two years she was well.
Her healing provided the inspiration for Charles, her husband, to experience his healing as well, and it was the catalyst for the beginning of the Unity Movement. When we are willing to meet our challenge, to face it, and yet still hold to the “prescription,” the focus on God, then we move beyond description of the problem into resolution and healing.
The lesson this week is about “The Body Temple.” It is important in our healing to remember that our bodies are “living temples of the Holy Spirit.” Let us deepen our realization of that and become more aware of the way we think about and talk to our bodies.
Love and blessings,
Rev. Kathy