Church as Healer VI

When we think of healing, we think of something being broken. Yet before the brokenness there is health. We are designed to be healthy, naturally so, unless something interferes with that. It is like in Genesis where G-d creates and in the end calls it ALL good. Our soul health is our goodness in a sense. Our goodness is the first creation. Something must separate us from that natural goodness before we require a correction or restoration of any sort.

Healing is that correction, a restoration of the goodness of the soul experienced as love and happiness. That is our nature, to experience this is our right and there is a part of us that knows this as our spiritual heritage. We have lost our way back to the goodness, which is G-d within us. If religion only existed to do this one thing, return us to our original health and wholeness, religion would serve G-d, and Peace would be within our global reach.

Instead we have used religion to divide us, to splinter us socially, and psychologically. In so, to justify our madness, we have made of G-d a power apart from us and our world, and denied the image of G-d within us.

We see before us a material world only and have disconnected from the spiritual energy which governs it – the living waters that connect us one to another and are the carriers of information as spiritual and psychological knowledge which reveals the true causes behind our sufferings, healing our memories, emotions and disorderly thoughts.

We do not need to be told to love when the waters of life flow freely and cleanse us, for we no longer feel separated. We do not need to have G-d preached to us for we now abide in a presence of Life’s immanence, and for what would we trade that.

This spiritual water for which we thirst is as experiential as our heartbeat and not merely a metaphor, nor is it a gift we receive at the altar. It is as near to us as our breath and needs only to be pointed out, as we would point to the stars and show a child the belt of Orion in the night sky. The tihas come to see the realty behind the symbols we hear in church. The time has come to make church an instrument for teaching the healing G-d so wants to give to us.

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