The life of a healer

Here is a glimpse inside my mind. Sometimes when I am turned back to the art of healing, I get lost in the case I am taking. I go inside the person on a very intimate level. Peeling the symptoms back like layers in of an onion. It is sometimes hard to know where one ends and another begins. That is why I rely on God. He is my healer. I can take the lessons he teaches me in my own healing process. When I take on another's health, I am able to be healed. We are the world and the world is looking for a better way. A way with peace and happiness and joy, answers to life's hard questions. Jesus is that way, he is the answers. I had to learn that before I could truly become a healer. We turn to medical professionals, to herbalists, to chiropractors and gurus, but what we are all seeking is the healing of the soul(which is the mind, the emotions, and the will). No doctor can heal those ills. I think that is why I learned about herbs, though at the time I thought it was because I was seeking the healing of my child's body. But I believe everything is a metaphor, and I was really seeking to know if there was a better way. I have been on this journey for 10 years now and I have found the answer is "Yes". The the realm of plant medicine,with the way It is cellular, it is something that we see and yet can't see, correlates to Faith. The power is there, all around us. In the very plants we walk by, or kill as weeds, is what God put on earth to use to get relief when we are sick, and ultimately draw us toward real healing.It is what truly drew me. When we decide to take herbs we are making our first step outside of being told what to do. A physician's medicine is passive, there is nothing to do on your part. You take the medicine the symptoms abate, you think everything is better, then it comes back, maybe not in the same form, but you are still sick. Herbalism is the first step towards faith. You have to be tierd enough of the system to look elsewhere. Then your life is led to an herbalist. That is where transformation begins to take place, for healing is a process. To take herbal medicine is to take our healing into our own hands. Each herb is a plant, and each plant is part of life. You breath their breath, you can look at them, touch them, you can even grow them. They are tangible, personal healing. When you hold that plant, you have to have faith that they aren't poisonous, like we were taught. You have to have faith that they can heal. You have to look inside yourself and dig through the layers to get to who you are, to really connect to what it is that makes you sick. Herbs in and of themselves can't truly heal you, neither can medications. They have healing principles,yes. I have seen people healed of ailments with them even if they didn't believe in a higher power, but the symptoms always return. More sickness surfaces. Then that one is better and more return. A truly healed person doesn't need to keep coming back for more. They now work preventative, through a thoroughly well body.If you get sick, you think back to where that started in your life, fix that and then you are well again. There is no shame or condemnation if we do get sick, just don't stay that way.( There is nothing inside you that is too big or scary for God.) When you are healed, you are happy, fully reliant on God. That is the only true healing, when you get beneath all the symptoms and see you; and you and God as one. God cannot be sick. And he is in you. I am going to add the bible verse that helped me the most in my journey to healing. (I had to go through my own healing process, because a sick healer doesn't heal) 1 john 4:13 "God has given us his very own spirit; we understand that he abides in us and we in him and it is given witness by the spirit within us". That is exactly what healing is. It is recognizing God in us and us in him and letting that bear witness through the spirit, who is well and alive, peaceful and happy, inside us. As we live that, we give glory to our Father. God meets us where ever we are at, so he guides the physicians when they work on us, and he leads us to the next step when we are ready, then he helps us through the process of healing until finally we get to the door of real health. We knock and it is Jesus who opens the door, He was the one all along. The physician, the herbalist, the guru, whatever. His only wish is that we receive the gift that he gave us, the healing that he deserves. So in his name, lets accept that gift and let it transform us into new bodies, full of health and vigour. So we can enjoy the lives he gave us; our children, our husband or wife, and our house (yes and even the fact that we have enough stuff to make such a mess), the fact that we have enough food, abundance of choices! He has to help us see the world, through his eyes, who sees the truth. So lets really heal and see what we can do! I am not the healer, the herbs are not the healer, the physician is not the healer, Jesus is, in us. Whenever I start to think I have anything to do with the herbalism that I know, He always turns me back to shows me it is only Him, it always has been,and I can rest in that.