01.12.25 "What Makes Someone Holy?"

I want to talk about a healing quotation that I refer to often, and that I feel is very important. "Healing is holy. Nothing in the world is holier than helping one who asks for help." (Psy.2.V.4) Healing is the holiest thing we can do while we are here on planet earth.

A lot of spiritual people are trying to be holy. Perhaps they think lots of meditation makes them holy. Let's not forget prayer too. That must be essential. Perhaps people think being a vegetarian will help them be holy. A devotion to good charity work surely must help someone be holy. Always being kind and gentle in our words and actions must also be a good contributor to holiness. Oh, I almost forgot, a chaste and pure life, maybe a vow of celibacy is needed. Aren't all the truly holy ones beyond body centered pleasures? There's also active involvement with church or religious organizations, a strong devotion to family and friends, .... quite a long list we're developing here.

According to ACIM none of these things help us to be holy, although we may be guided by the Holy Spirit to participate in some. Certainly prayer and meditation do have a place for ACIM students, especially when practicing Workbook lessons. Plus I would be remiss in my job as Executive Minister of the CMC not to encourage people to be supportive and involved with their church.

However the single most important thing essential to us being holy, claiming holiness, and feeling holy is that we do our guided best to be healers of our brothers, sisters, and the world as a whole. In fact Jesus tells us this is the only valid purpose of life here at all. "Forget not that the healing of God's Son is all the world is for. That is the only purpose the Holy Spirit sees in it and thus the only one it has. Until you see the healing of the Son as all you wish to be accomplished by the world, by time, and all appearances, you will not know the Father nor yourself." (OrEd.Tx.24.52) Until we devote our lives singularly to healing ... we will not be holy.

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