T. 27. II. 8 – 10. Jesus: “The Holy Spirit knows your healing is the witness unto your brother’s wholeness, and cannot be apart from his at all. As long as your brother consents to suffer, you will remain unhealed.
Yet you can show your brother that his suffering is purposeless and wholly without cause. Show him your healing, and he will consent no more to his own suffering! For then his innocence has been established in your sight and his. And laughter will replace your sighs because God’s Son has remembered that he is God’s Son.
Who, then, can possibly fear healing? Only those to whom their brother’s sacrifice and pain are seen as necessary for their own serenity. Their helplessness and weakness serve as grounds on which they justify their brother’s pain. ‘Look at mine,’ they say. The constant sting of guilt he suffers serves to prove that he is slave, while they think that they are free of it. They see the constant pain they suffer as justified because it holds their brother bound to guilt. And sickness is then desired to prevent a shift of balance in the sacrifice.
How could the Holy Spirit be deterred an instant, even less, in bringing reason to an argument for sickness such as this? And need your healing be delayed because you have paused to listen to insanity?
Correction is not your function. It belongs to the Holy Spirit, One Who knows of fairness, not of guilt. If you assume ‘correction’s’ role in your relationship, the function of forgiveness is lost, and the result will not be healing. No one can forgive until he learns true correction is but to forgive, and never to accuse or try to change another.
Correction is not your function. It belongs to the Holy Spirit, One Who knows of fairness, not of guilt. If you assume ‘correction’s’ role in your relationship, the function of forgiveness is lost, and the result will not be healing. No one can forgive until he learns true correction is but to forgive, and never to accuse or try to change another.
Alone, you cannot see correction and forgiveness are the same, and therefore is correction not of you. Identity and function are the same, and by your function do you know yourself. And thus, if you confuse your function with the function of Another, the Holy Spirit, you must be confused about yourself and who you are.
What is the separation but a wish to take God’s function from Him and deny that it is His? Yet if it is not His, it is not yours, for you must lose the wholeness that you would take away.”