A National Health Care Prescription

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At the moment, there is a lot of debate regarding the delivery of healthcare to the American people. The problem is that it focuses on money, doctors, drugs, hospitals, and insurance companies. Many people make their living providing these services and many make a very good living On the other hand, many patients go bankrupt because they cannot afford it. On the third hand, many are fine with "the system" as it is and are OK with it.

That is fine and good, as far as it goes. The problem is that the most important parts are missing. We have failed to take into consideration that we human beings have free will and create our own reality. When we chose to leave "the garden" and eat of the fruit of "good and evil" we brought sickness, injury, and death into existence at a level far from God. We all do, if we are human, so no one has a corner on blame. The bottom line is that sickness, injury, and death are the result of choices we have made and is a result of our refusal to Love our Source... or Ourself.

Our current program doesn't work as well as it might because it has gotten away from the basics of who we are. We are not bodies - we are the Child of the Universe who created the appearance of bodies in order to try to be separate from the Inseparable. Sickness, injury, birth and death should not be taken too seriously - they do not affect who we are at all. We shall wake up and realize that even many lifetimes were only a dalliance with a crazy idea.

However, it seems that we are in the midst of the illusion and it seems real. The Course in Miracles reminds us that our experiences can be divided into two categories: Expressions of Love... or Calls for Love. The Beatles remind us of what we have forgotten, which is the only prescription that means anything: all we need is love!

"All you need is love,
All you need is love,
All you need is love, love,
Love is all you need.

Love, love,
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love.

All you need is love,
All you need is love,
All you need is love, love,
Love is all you need."

Agreements come much easier when we tell others what we need to say with with Love in our hearts and our voices.

One problem is that on this level of illusion we are looking for answer outside of ourselves and not from inside where we fee our Love connection to the Universe. We seldom do the best we can. It's as if the Universe is talking to us directly through this Moody Blues song, "Say What You Mean".

"Say what you mean.
Mean what you say.
Think about the words
That you're using.
Speak for yourself,
Say what's on your mind,
And think about the life
That you're choosing.

I knowthat you need somebody.
I know that you're looking
For someone who know
When trouble won't leave you alone.

Say what you mean.
Mean what you say.
Look into the world of tomorrow.
Say what you want.
Want what is true.
Check out of that room
Full of sorrow.

I'm ready to take you with me,
I'm ready to be the one
Who's there by your side,
When you've just got
Nowhere to hide.

And oh,
The angels will walk with you and
Whenever you need them, yeah.
The glory that comes of love.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And oh,
The treasure that waits for us
Whenever we need it, now
I just can't hold it back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The work and the pain,
The thunder and the rain,
The word of the earth has been spoken.
The bird on the wing,
Free as the wind,
Knowing that the spell
Has been broken.

Now you can laugh with meaning.
Now you can throw away
The cloak of disguise
As you turn your face
To the skies.

The blue of the night,
The secrets of the light,
The touch of the hand
That can lead you.
I know you recognize
The shiver of surprise
When you realize
That He's seen you."

We know we need love... we know we need somebody... but we are already a part of Somebody who can never leave us. It is us who are ignoring the Almighty.

Sickness and death are ways we ignore our heritage and try something that we cannot be. Even right now, we can tell that treating our neighbors and friends in any way other that with Love doesn't work very well. After all, the sickness, death, anger, and hatred are merely calls for Love. When love is re-established, all that other stuff disappears to the nothingness that it was in the first place. Why waste time with trivialities and do as the Moody Blues suggest, and whenever we discuss anything, including health care, we "Say It With Love".

"I've been thinking the way people do
'Bout the things that matter
To me and you.
I've decided to do what I can
And to find the kind of man
I really am.

I can see the world from here
And it sometimes makes me
Want to disappear.
Back to nature, that's where we belong
And with just one truth I've found
You can't go wrong.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
Whatever you say,
Say, say, say,
Say it with Love."

If we would do just this one thing, whatever we say, we say it with love, most our problems would cease to be important. If we can follow the simple prescription of honestly loving others and Ourself right now, no matter what governments do, we will find that spiritual health is of far more importance than bodily health. Love is truly the one lesson that we need to learn. Soon we will 'laugh with meaning' at all the crazy stuff we thought was really important and know the perfect Joy that is our birthright!

Download these beautiful songs to help you remember that Love is who you really are. Those songs are some of the reasons that the Beatles and Moody Blues are so highly thought of.