I have asked myself this many times in the past. Several years ago I went to see John of God the Brazilian healer they call the “Miracle Man”. I witnessed him using the most unorthodox methods to assist others in their healing. I was blown away by the miraculous results that took place as one person after the other was healed, many who had come to see him as a last resort.
I talked to many people after their encounter with John of God about their healing, many people I spoke to were not religious, nor spiritual, just desperate to receive their miracle and to live, willing to try anything.
Some people did not receive this miracle of life but found resolve with their life and peaceful about moving on, wherever that may be.
Conversation after conversation with people I heard them say , “ I can do everything “right’ and die, or do everything “wrong” and live. When it is our time, nothing can prevent us from this final frontier.
This may be true, however, I love life and since most of us do not know when we will leave this plane I feel that we should always reach for life and that which is life giving. In the reaching profound growth can happen.
Each time I would go before John of God, he would say to me “we are helping you”. I would walk away each time and ask myself, what does he mean, they are helping me? It took me three pilgrimages to see John of God to understand what it was that he was trying to tell me.
I am the healer, if he had healed me I would never know that healing myself was possible. When healing happens it is something within us consciously or unconsciously inviting it to happen. It may look like healing is getting done by somebody or something outside ourselves, but the truth is that someone or something is simply a conduit for our healing. What I know to date it that each of us are healers and when healing takes place it is of our own doing.
John of God often says, ‘I do not heal”. For me John of God was a compassionate facilitator, he showed me what is possible, what was miraculous can be the norm. It is ours to believe.
Nameste~ Charlene
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