Sickness is a defense against the truth.

5-17-2026

“It is a choice you make, a plan you lay, when for an instant truth arises in your own deluded mind and all your world appears to totter and prepare to fall. Now are you sick, that truth may go away and threaten your establishments no more.” [CE W-136.8:3-4]

In his lifetime, Jesus brought ideas into people’s minds that went against the norms of society. People in charge did not like that if minds changed that the way they live their lives would change, so they killed Jesus to be rid of his ideas of an alternative way of living. This is what this lesson is telling us is going on within our psyche.

Our ego is the ruling class. It likes its comforts and doesn’t want change. When the truth of our being great eternal spiritual beings enters our minds for consideration, sickness can be a tool used by the ego.

The ego part of the mind knows that the body is a reflection of the mind’s thoughts. The body can be made sick, then do all thoughts turn to sickness and the body.

Accepting the truth of ourselves as eternal beings clears the mind and brings us once again in communication with our true Selves and God. The mind in this state brings healing to the body. This is my understanding of this lesson.

5-16-2024

“What God wills for you must be received.”

This is such a tough lesson. I confess that I just perused it and at this level it was negative and confusing. Paragraph 11 pulled me back in as it provided more positivity.

“God knows not of your plans to change His Will. The universe remains unheeding of the laws by which you thought to govern it. And Heaven has not bowed to hell, nor life to death. You can but choose to think you die, or suffer sickness or distort the truth in any way. What is created is apart from all of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. What is unalterable cannot change. And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.”

The Love of God is stable.

All our false beliefs about who we think we are related to our body just tangles its systems between the true-loving energy field and the mistaken thought forms we feed into the body’s source field.

“I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself.”

I am not separate from the Loving Source of Creation. My thoughts are to change to be in support of my True Self which will then support my body, mind, and soul.

God wills for me that I accept the Love, light, peace, joy, strength, and truth that I really am.

So be it.

5-16-2023

“I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.”

In her lesson notes, Hollie describes the body as ‘a neutral channel through which Love’s work can be done.’ She beautifully instructs me to use Love – that my attention should be on the soul as the body untangles itself.

“We need to bring the Love that we find ourselves to be to water all the abandoned, isolated parts of ourselves so that we can identify with our true nature above all else in an integrated way.” ~ Hollie Holden

I love you body … all of your parts and every cell.

5-16-2022

I am feeling the ‘little crack’ that Hollie always mentions, meaning that a new insight is forming, or some false thought is being released.

Thank you, body.

I am so grateful for all you are capable of and able to handle, coming from this consciousness. I respect you and only wish for that respect and admiration to grow. You amaze me regularly with healing as you do.

I am blessed by you. Please forgive me for the influences of my mind. I am grateful for the new awareness.

“I mistook my body for myself. I am not a body. And my mind cannot attack.“