“Either This Stuff Works, or It Doesn’t” — Rev Donald
I had an acquaintance contact me through Facebook the other week because she believed I could help her find a healer who could heal her of a physical illness that she was experiencing. I asked her how involved she wished to be in her own healing. When she asked what I meant by that, I explained to her how affirmative prayer works and how it worked more effectively if she was willing to participate in her own wholeness, wellness and health. Eventually the conversation circled back, with her expressing that she didn't want to have to do anything, that she wanted a faith healer to do it for her and to her. Exasperated (yes, I know its hard to believe I got exasperated, but I did), I reminded her how Jesus worked with the people who came to him for healing.
"Consider how Jesus healed the people in the Bible. It was their faith in him that did the work, the blind man, the lame, the leper, the woman with incessant bleeding, all of them. He routinely said some variation of 'your faith has healed you' and he sometimes gave them a task, to have them participate in their own wholeness. Even with Lazarus, his sisters' faith was what raised him from the dead. You get to decide where to put your faith. If it's in a faith healer, and that works for you, fabulous" (You can tell I was exasperated).
After I asked her if she was willing to work with an affirmation declaring her wholeness, she reaffirmed her desire to have someone else do the work for her. She asked if I would do it for her. I replied that I would not, that I would say an affirmative prayer for and about her health, wholeness and wellbeing, and, as she had originally requested, pointed her in the direction of several different healers who worked with different modalities. I figured that was the end of the conversation.
On p. 128 of the Science of Mind, Holmes reminds us that, "we may change the trend of causation which has been set in motion at any time we decide to do so. Everything comes from Intelligence. There is nothing but Unity; there is nothing but freedom; there is nothing but completeness; there is nothing but Totality. Begin at the beginning and reason this out, time after time, until all doubt disappears. It is necessary that each one do this for himself. Such is the power of right thinking that it cancels and erases everything unlike itself. It answers every question, solves all problems, is the solution to all difficulty...."
Two days later, she messages me back, saying she had contacted some of those healers but none had responded and that she was feeling better. She asked if I was doing distance-healing work on her. "No", I replied, "not in the way you mean". And I asked her, again, if she was willing to allow wholeness and health to be her new reality. The next day I received another message of a similar sort, which included a statement about her willingness to accept health and healing in her own language.
It's going to be fun to watch her embody her own wellness, wholeness and health.
-- Janis
August 13th, 2012 - 07:00
The Newsletter received a comment to this post, which is presented in its entirety below. We asked the writer if she would post her response to the blog, and as she has not, she is not being identified.
First the comment:
I need to float.
No you can’t do that. You must sink or swim.
No. I need to float.
(repeat above)
Is this our divine connection?
I am so very thankful that my own concept of God allows floating.
I found Janis Farmer’s message as heartless.
She obviously is convinced that there’s a higher purpose behind her attitude toward this woman.
I really can’t believe how cold.
Now the response:
Dearest,
I am saddened by what you perceived from my original post. The post was about a woman who came to me seeking assistance in healing a physical condition. It was not my intention or need to change her, it was her desire to heal and change.
I am certain that we always live in choice and are always at choice in how we choose to live our lives. There are times that floating like a feather in the Divine is a glorious way to experience life. There are other times when each one may desire to make a change. Neither is an incorrect choice. Both have natural results or consequences. Floating, luscious as it is, doesn’t generally result in intentional change.
I leave you with a few questions. What do you want? If you are utterly delighted in the life that you have, that is fabulous. If you want something different than what you have right now, are you willing to make a change? What if you need to change a belief or habitual thought pattern to achieve that thing that you want? And if that change in habitual thought pattern or belief is stronger if it is reinforced or supported by a change in activity or lifestyle, are you still interested?
–Janis