1. No one can pay for therapy, for healing is of God and He
asks for nothing. It is, however, part of His plan that everything
in this world be used by the Holy Spirit to help in carrying out
the plan. Even an advanced therapist has some earthly needs while
he is here.
Should he need money it will be given him, not in payment, but
to help him better serve the plan. Money is not evil. It is nothing.
But no one here can live with no illusions, for he must yet strive
to have the last illusion be accepted by everyone everywhere.
He has a mighty part in this one purpose, for which he came. He
stays here but for this. And while he stays he will be given what
he needs to stay.
2. Only an unhealed healer would try to heal for money, and he
will not succeed to the extent to which he values it. Nor will
he find his healing in the process. There will be those of whom
the Holy Spirit asks some payment for His purpose. There will
be those from whom He does not ask. It should not be the therapist
who makes these decisions. There is a difference between payment
and cost. To give money where God's plan allots it has no cost.
To withhold it from where it rightfully belongs has enormous cost.
The therapist who would do this loses the
name of healer, for he could never understand what healing is.
He cannot give it, and so he does not have it.
3. The therapists of this world are indeed useless to the world's
salvation. They make demands, and so they cannot give. Patients
can pay only for the exchange of illusions. This, indeed, must
demand payment, and the cost is great. A "bought" relationship
cannot offer the only gift whereby all healing is accomplished.
Forgiveness, the Holy Spirit's only dream, must have no cost.
For if it does, it merely crucifies God's Son again. Can this
be how he is forgiven? Can this be how the dream of sin will end?
4. The right to live is something no one need fight for. It is
promised him, and guaranteed by God. Therefore it is a right the
therapist and patient share alike. If their relationship is to
be holy, whatever one needs is given by the other; whatever one
lacks the other supplies. Herein is the relationship made holy,
for herein both are healed. The therapist repays the patient in
gratitude, as does the patient repay him. There is no cost to
either. But thanks are due to both, for the release from long
imprisonment and doubt. Who would not be grateful for such a gift?
Yet who could possibly imagine that it could be bought?
5. It has well been said that to him who hath shall be given.
Because he has, he can give.
And because he gives, he shall be given. This is the law of God,
and not of the world. So it is with God's healers. They give because
they have heard His Word and understood it. All that they need
will thus be given them. But they will lose this understanding
unless they remember that all they have comes only from God. If
they believe they need anything from a brother, they will recognize
him as a brother no longer. And if they do this, a light goes
out even in Heaven. Where God's Son turns against himself, he
can look only upon darkness. He has himself denied the light,
and cannot see.
6. One rule should always be observed: No one should be turned
away because he cannot pay. No one is sent by accident to anyone.
Relationships are always purposeful. Whatever their purpose may
have been before the Holy Spirit entered them, they are always
His potential temple; the resting place of Christ and home of
God Himself. Whoever comes has been sent.
Perhaps he was sent to give his brother the money he needed. Both
will be blessed thereby.
Perhaps he was sent to teach the therapist how much he needs forgiveness,
and how valueless is money in comparison. Again will both be blessed.
Only in terms of cost could one have more. In sharing, everyone
must gain a blessing without cost.
7. This view of payment may well seem impractical, and in the
eyes of the world it would be so. Yet not one worldly thought
is really practical. How much is gained by striving for illusions?
How much is lost by throwing God away? And is it possible to do
so? Surely it is impractical to strive for nothing, and to attempt
to do what is impossible. Then stop a while, long enough to think
of this: You have perhaps been seeking for salvation without recognizing
where to look. Whoever asks your help can show you where. What
greater gift than this could you be given? What greater gift is
there that you would give?
8. Physician, healer, therapist, teacher, heal thyself. Many will
come to you carrying the gift of healing, if you so elect. The
Holy Spirit never refuses an invitation to enter and abide with
you. He will give you endless opportunities to open the door to
your salvation, for such is His function. He will also tell you
exactly what your function is in every circumstance and at all
times. Whoever He sends you will reach you, holding out his hand
to his Friend. Let the Christ in you bid him welcome, for that
same Christ is in him as well. Deny him entrance, and you have
denied the Christ in you. Remember the sorrowful story of the
world, and the glad tidings of salvation. Remember the plan of
God for the restoration of joy and peace. And do not forget how
very simple are the ways of God:
You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked
for light.
And then God sent His Son to give it to you.
