When Healing Is Granted
When your prayer is answered and the healing is complete, do not abandon God. Continue your practice of regular prayer and meditation. As often as you can, re-align yourself with the presence of God within you. It is the only relationship worth pursuing forever. With regular practice, your spiritual heart will stay open longer. Eventually, this new activity of the heart will be accompanied by a growing feeling that cannot be adequately described in any language. The closest we can get to an accurate description is “a combination of joy, love, happiness, and peace that have a quality of innocence and purity that we knew when we were little children”.
With continued practice, this feeling will grow. Sometimes you will not be able to contain it. Can you even imagine love and joy so strong and overwhelming that you cannot bear them, that you beg them to stop? When it happens, it will mean that you have succeeded in contacting the indwelling Presence, but your mind and body are not strong enough to let the Presence express itself through you fully. It will take time and a constant spiritual effort. The day will come when you suddenly realize that the reward is God Himself—the Giver, who is infinitely more desirable than all His gifts.
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