Sing Hymns of Praise
Jan 20th, 2010 by admin
Dear friends,
Ursula’s request for her father inspired today’s letter. She wrote: “How do we create mental and spiritual energy in the face of chronic health problems? Do we just accept whatever state of health we are in and ask for help? When our bodies are energy-deficient, how do we continue to fulfill our mission of ‘serving’ our fellow human beings? ”
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 42:11, 43:5.
The Psalms have inspired humans for millennia and can inspire our answer to this request as well, but we need an accurate understanding of it. The soul cannot be cast down or disquieted. Only the mind can be. The mind has split into a Higher Mind that is in contact with the soul and a lower mind that is not. Soul corresponds with Spirit in the Rosicrucian Teachings.
The Higher Mind equates itself with Spirit or Soul, and thus identifies with God, because Spirit is always one with God and functions with total health within God’s Oneness. The lower mind, or false self, identifies itself with the body. When something goes wrong with the body, it feels threatened and becomes despondent. It tries many things to fix the body. True healing, however, can never come through the magical interventions of the lower mind. The body is only a tool of Spirit. Fixing the tool will never fix the real problem, which is in the mind itself.
True healing comes only through Spirit. “Do not allow another to become dispirited.” To be dispirited is to become alienated from Spirit or God. To be inspired is to be in the Spirit or in God. Focusing on the body, the lower mind becomes distressed and this actually fosters the dis-ease of the body. Centering on God, the Higher Mind infuses itself with purpose. With purpose the Higher Mind infuses the body with light and life that restores it to healing. All of us must leave this body at some time. Our true home is not the body, but Spirit. As long as we believe we are home in the body, we need to use the body in service of Spirit.
In today’s newspaper there was an article about a local young man, a ministerial student, who was working in Haiti with his wife at the time of the earthquake. Both of them were caught in the rubble of a falling building. The wife was rescued, but he was not. His wife reported that he sang hymns of praise as long as he was able. Then life ebbed from his body.
We can best help others by living inspired lives ourselves that sing hymns of praise, not with our words alone but with all of the thoughts we think in our hearts. When we ourselves are inspired we naturally praise God by seeing Christ in all others and thereby extend light and joy of living into the lives of others and restore them to health regardless of the final outcome of the body, which will be laid aside when its work on this plane is done.
The healing work is just this task – to see Christ always in others. Even though our bodies may no longer work the way we would like, we can still sing hymns of praise if only in our hearts. When we finally leave this plane we can look forward to being of service on a higher plane.
Thank you for your voice in the healing work chorus.
Peace, John
