One of the most repeated lies in our culture goes like this: time heals all wounds. It doesn’t. Time is inert — it has no healing power at all. Waiting on time to do what only truth can do is how we stay stuck, sometimes for decades.
Healing Does Not Take Time
Ernest Holmes, the great founder of Science of Mind, said something that helped me see this clearly: Healing does not take time. The only time it takes is the time it takes to have a realization of truth. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. A Course in Miracles makes the same point another way: a realization of truth is exactly what the Course calls a miracle. And miracles have nothing to do with time. Nothing at all.
What Actually Happens “Over Time”
When we look at people who seem to have healed through the passage of time, here’s what actually occurred. At some point — after enough pain, enough suffering — they decided they were done. They gave up their attachment to the grievance. Not because time did something to it, but because they finally said: I’ve had enough. I can’t hold this hot, painful, poisonous thought anymore. And in that willingness to let go, the healing happened. Time had nothing to do with it.
We Are Waiting on Nothing
A Course in Miracles teaches us that our willingness is all that’s required. A small willingness brings small but definite results. A great willingness brings great results. We are not waiting on a clock, not waiting on circumstances, not waiting for other people to change.
We are waiting on ourselves — and the moment we become willing to see differently, the healing is available.
The Beautiful News
We don’t have to suffer for another day, another month, another year. The deep, lasting, permanent healing of our mind is available right now — not after enough time has passed, not when the situation resolves itself. Right now, if we’re willing. Reading about mind-training isn’t mind-training and therefore isn’t healing. Practice is.
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We can do this.
We choose freedom — now.
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: You’ve Been Fighting the Wrong Battle I’ve been studying and teaching A Course in Miracles for decades years, and there’s one teaching I come back to again and again — because it’s the one that most students resist. It’s also the one that finally set me free. In this episode, I share why everything we try to fix “out there” keeps failing, and what we’re actually supposed to be looking at instead. If you’ve been feeling powerless — like the world keeps doing things TO you — this episode is going to challenge you. And it might just change where you put your attention from now on.
