Finger-pointing. Whenever something bad happens, there tends to be a lot of it. Although finger-pointing can sometimes be an attempt to avoid accountability, isn’t it better to figure out what went wrong so a similar situation can be avoided in the future? On the level of human experience, it usually is. But if we’re looking for full healing, there is a higher way.

The Bible records Jesus’ disciples asking him about a man blind since birth, “Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Who was to blame for the man’s blindness? No one, Jesus replied. “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” And then Jesus removed the blindness (see John 9:1–7).

The Bible declares that God truly is ever present and all powerful and that each of us is forever embraced in His infinite love. He is the only creator, and all that He created is good. No disruptive element can enter God’s creation because He created no such element. Each of us is, in reality, a beloved child of God, Spirit, created in His image and likeness. Therefore, each of us has the innate capacity to see and experience God’s perfect control, the good He is showering on each of His children. When, through prayer, we come to understand this, we begin to see our own and others’ true nature as wholly spiritual, wholly good, and therefore innocent and blameless. This view brings healing.