This past year has been a very revealing time for me. The reason, of course, is because I have been "healing."

"Healing," the word has been used so often by me, by doctors, friends, and well-wishers, that I finally just had to look it up.

Webster defines healing as, "to make whole; to restore to health" and further defines health as, "the state of being whole." As a metaphysician (technically that would be a Super-physician) I want to quibble a bit with those words. It's not that I don't like them, it's that, as a metaphysician, I really don't believe that we have to "make" ourselves whole, or even "restore" ourselves to health, but rather that we have to remember and believe that health/wholeness is our natural state of being and that anything unlike that is a temporary condition.

In The Science of Mind the founder of Religious Science, Ernest Holmes, writes, "Healing is not creating a perfect idea or a perfect body; it is revealing an idea which is already perfect. Healing is not a process, it is a revelation..."

So I have had a personal revelation, and it is this: When one (in this case me) ignores any human condition (in this case a combination of ongoing sinus "problems" and a long-term misdiagnosed and mistreated flu bug) instead of treating it properly (both on a Divine level, with prayer, and on a human level with whatever practical assistance may be available) the condition, being an effect and not a cause, will not heal itself but will search for ways to express at ever higher and higher levels, creating dis-ease.

This dis-ease might look like sickness, or lack of money, or a crumbling relationship, or dissatisfying work. It can look like a lot of things, and therein lies the challenge: not getting caught in the appearances.

Gratefully, Spirit will find a way to reveal the Truth. Often that tends to look like things get worse before they get better. But hang on, Holmes goes on to remind us that, "There may be a process in healing, but not a process of healing. The process in healing is the mental work and the time it takes the practitioner to convince himself of the perfection of his patient; and the length of time it takes the patient to realize this perfection."

Make no mistake; I am very grateful for all of the expert humans who have contributed to my revealing. But I am more clear than ever that the medics and the medicines have simply created the space in which I could realize a higher Truth and reveal the perfect life within.