Incapable of Suffering

"Only the eternal can be loved, for Love does not die. What is of God is His forever, and you are of God. Would He allow HimSelf to suffer? And would He offer His Son anything that is not acceptable to Him? If you will accept yourself as God created you, you will be incapable of suffering. Your Father created you wholly without sin, wholly without pain, and wholly without suffering of any kind. If you deny Him you bring sin, pain, and suffering into your own mind. Your mind is capable of creating [illusory] worlds, but it can also deny what it creates because it is free." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 10, Section V, 9:1-5, 9-11

"Controlled by the Divine Intelligence, man is harmonious and eternal. Whatever is governed by a false belief is discordant and mortal. We say man suffers from the effects of cold, heat, fatigue. This is human belief, not the Truth of Being, for matter cannot suffer. Mortal mind alone suffers; not because a law of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this so-called mind has been disobeyed. I have demonstrated this as a rule of Divine Science by destroying the delusion of suffering from what is termed a fatally broken physical law." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 184, Lines 16-

"There are no laws but God's. You are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you. It is insanity that thinks these things. These are not laws, but madness. The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind will fail to see it is the victim of itself. The body's suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really suffers. Only what it is meant to hide will save you." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 76

I am incapable of suffering. Here I sit, in the throes of what seems like a really bad case of the flu, listening to Truth and asking that my perception be healed. Not so I can stop suffering... I know that is not true, and I'm not trying to get rid of anything. I am asking that my Right Mind be in charge, that my perception be cleansed and translated... so I can see what IS, and remember what is always and eternally True. My mind, as a part of God's Mind, is very holy... and wholly incapable of suffering. The mind that thinks it's in a body thinks it is an effect of the body and of all things physical. It's the kind of closed feedback loop at which the ego excels. In this delusional story, the body tells the mind whatever it wants to hear, and the mind gives the body the illusion of reality. And on and on it goes.

So I'm choosing to see this little jaunt into illusory bodily suffering as the gift of sight... I am being given an opportunity once again to see the utter practicality of Jeshua ben Joseph's words and teachings. "Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God." (ACIM; Introduction, 2:2-4)

In the middle of the night, in what seemed to be feverish dreams and fitful sleep, I noticed my will... I felt determination, the proverbial girding of the loins in the face of appearances. I realized this is nothing at all. As it says in The Bible, "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. For wherein is he to be accounted of?" (Isaiah 2:22) The physical is illusory; appearing healthy or appearing sick, it is nothing at all. Used only to communicate Truth, the body will be able to take me where I need to go, and do what needs to be done. And what else would I use it for? Like my car, it's not who I am. Like my car and my home, the body is not a measure of my worth or indicative of anything at all except the ego's preferences, its fears and its loves. No difference to the ego. Attachments and aversions are the same in motivation and result.

So I am at peace. Health and Peace are always present, eternal attributes of the Holiness and Wholeness of God's Son. I am as God created me, and this Truth is Eternal. As a radiation of the Love of God, I am incapable of suffering. And all the stories that judge what occurs as pleasurable or painful have no more meaning than a leaf blowing by in the wind. All the stories of suffering and lack and loss are simply elaborate ego devices... and without judgement, seen through the eyes of forgiveness, Truth and Joy and Self are always revealed. Without judgement, through the eyes of forgiveness, I am incapable of suffering.

"Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself. "I rest in God." Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problem that it cannot solve. And no appearance but will turn to Truth before the eyes of you who rest in God." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 109, 2:6, 3:1-5