because you seem to "fail." Failure is often success, written with a capital S.

The time has probably come in your spiritual growth when you are no longer to cling to just the one spiritual gift. God's thoughts for you are not as your thoughts for yourself. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Is. 55:9).

Healing is truly a "branch" of "the vine" (Jn. 15:4), but it is not the only branch. There are many branches, all of which are necessary to the perfect vine, which is seeking through you and me to bear much fruit. What God wants is that we shall grow into such conscious oneness with Him, such realization that He who is the substance of all good really abides in us, that "ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you" (Jn. 15:7).

If you are faithfully and earnestly living what Truth you know and still find that your power to heal is not so great as it was at first, recognize it as All-Good. Be assured, no matter what anyone else says to you or thinks, that the seeming failure does not mean loss of power. It means that you are to let go of the lesser in order that you may grasp the whole in which the lesser is included. Do not fear for a moment to let go of just this one little branch of divine power; choose rather to have the highest thoughts of Infinite Mind, let them be what they