Healing Didn’t Seem to Work
By Robert Waterhouse
I had practiced the principles of the 6-week study on “Becoming a Course Based Healer,” focusing on my elderly parents who were in their early 80’s. To my disappointment, their declining health did not seem to improve with my efforts.
In video calls and later in person, my mother’s memory had visibly worsened, and she hadn’t recovered well from an operation that was supposed to improve her quality of life. Before and after my visit, my weekly video calls with them were often difficult, with many arguments between them that I would get drawn into, highlighting my dad’s growing frustrations and my mother’s resentments and negativity towards him. Her obvious depression over her recent medical procedure and the gradual failing of her memory weighed her down.
I had read in the healing course’s supplementary section that a healer shouldn’t undertake follow-up healings as healing has been done. But I didn’t want to give up and I was uncertain what to do. One evening in a quiet moment as I was thinking about practicing another healing exercise, I asked myself why this healing hadn’t worked for my parents, not even a little bit. The answer was immediate and stunned me. The message was, “You still see them as sick.”
I realized that I had only seen them in my mind in practice with the face of Christ during each of the healing exercises, but afterwards my practice fell apart. I continued seeing them both with the same problems and sickness of their bodies and ego as before. With this new realization, the images of seeing them both having the face of Christ returned to my mind. Now I only see them in my mind and in person with a shining light through them, no body, and no ego. I changed my approach to their healing.
In our next video call, they were suddenly in great spirits, getting along with each other and telling me they were going out places together. This exuberant spirit continued in all our subsequent calls without any mention of health problems or medical visits. Recently my dad said he hadn’t seen the doctor in ages. My mum has been going out to rock ‘n’ roll dances. She told me that on a night out with my sister, she had been on the dance floor 15 times! My dad added that he will be taking mum to a rock ‘n’ roll weekender in early November.
In our last video call, there was a further shift. It’s something I can’t remember seeing ever before between them, even when I was a child. Dad was explaining about the trip in November and how he wanted to take Mum so she could have a really good time. Mum was looking at him so lovingly. “He does so much for me,” she said. “We are so good together.” Dad had a smile that just beamed.
Did I affect this huge change in them? I’m not sure, but I do know that I have consistently seen them with the face of Christ shining through them.
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Let not the vision of his holiness, the sight of which would show you your forgiveness, be kept from you by what the body’s eyes can see. [CE T-22.IV.8:2]
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