1. Healing is always certain. 2It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions. 3Truth demonstrates illusions have no value. 4The teacher of God has seen the correction of his errors in the mind of the patient, recognizing it for what it is. 5Having accepted the Atonement for himself, he has also accepted it for the patient. 6Yet what if the patient uses sickness as a way of life, believing healing is the way to death? 7When this is so, a sudden healing might precipitate intense depression, and a sense of loss so deep that the patient might even try to destroy himself. 8Having nothing to live for, he may ask for death. 9Healing must wait, for his protection.
2. Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat. 2The instant it is welcome it is there. 3Where healing has been given it will be received. 4And what is time before the gifts of God? 5We have referred many times in the text to the storehouse of treasures laid up equally for the giver and the receiver of God’s gifts. 6Not one is lost, for they can but increase. 7No teacher of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing and it does not appear to have been received. 8It is not up to him to judge when his gift should be accepted. 9Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.
3. It is not the function of God’s teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts. 2It is merely their function to give them. 3Once they have done that they have also given the outcome, for that is part of the gift. 4No one can give if he is concerned with the result of giving. 5That is a limitation on the giving itself, and neither the giver nor the receiver would have the gift. 6Trust is an essential part of giving; in fact, it is the part that makes sharing possible, the part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. 7Who gives a gift and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems appropriate? 8Such is not giving but imprisoning.
4. It is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given. 2And it is trust that makes true giving possible. 3Healing is the change of mind that the Holy Spirit in the patient’s mind is seeking for him. 4And it is the Holy Spirit in the mind of the giver Who gives the gift to him. 5How can it be lost? 6How can it be ineffectual? 7How can it be wasted? 8God’s treasure house can never be empty. 9And if one gift is missing, it would not be full. 10Yet is its fullness guaranteed by God. 11What concern, then, can a teacher of God have about what becomes of his gifts? 12Given by God to God, who in this holy exchange can receive less than everything?