Q When healing seems to take a long time or is happening slowly, how does one keep from getting discouraged?
A Sometimes when a healing is taking a long time, it can be so easy to get fascinated by the problem. That is precisely the time when one can take the opportunity to get close to God as the real cause of their existence. This involves turning one's focus away from the complexities of the difficulty and staying with the solution—the truth that each person is the perfect, spiritual image of God, now. And it means staying in this divine consciousness all the time.
It's like comparing the human consciousness to a creeping caterpillar. In this stage, inching forward, there are all kinds of obstacles to climb over. When the caterpillar changes into a butterfly, it's similar to the transformation of the substance of a person's consciousness from human thoughts to divine thoughts. The caterpillar might take a while to climb over an obstacle, but the butterfly flies over it. Though the obstacles are still there, they can no longer destroy the peace and spiritual well-being that come with a transformation toward a more divine consciousness.
