05.14.23 "Heal the Sick; Raise the Dead"

Today's lesson has one of the great healing quotations in it, one of the quotations we rotate at the bottom of these emails. "The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death." (OrEd.WkBk.132.9) This is, of course, reflective of Miracle Principle #24, "Miracles enable man to heal the sick and raise the dead because he made sickness and death himself and can abolish both. (OrEd.Tx.1.27) A great 6 word meme to embed in our consciousness would be just, "Heal the sick; raise the dead." Somebody comes up to us and asks "Hey. What are you going to do today?" We could reply, "Heal the sick; raise the dead." I like that. I think I'll do that. Keeps us clear on our mission.

Remember the old *Mission Impossible* television show – 1966-1973? It would start with Mr. Phelps listening to a recording that described an impossible spy mission. At the end of the recording the voice would say, "Your mission, IF you should decide to accept it, is to ...." For *A Course in Miracles* that would be, "Your mission, WHEN you decide to accept it, is to heal the sick and raise the dead." It's not a matter of "if." It's strictly a matter of "when." Maybe this seems like mission impossible to us at times, but it shouldn't. If Jesus could do it, we can do it. "I would not ask you to do the things you cannot do, and it is impossible that I could do things you cannot do." (OrEd.Tx.8.88) Heal the sick; raise the dead" is always "Mission Possible." 28 min.