The Song of Raphael ("God Heals")

The heart is a treasurehouse, where the sweetest things are preserved.


Peace, Love, Wisdom, and Purity

are different names and actions of the one God.



God is a healer, and the greatest of healers,

for he is the source and fountain of all healers and all healing.



God heals by leading us into his divine presence.



His presence is a boundless light

which transforms us utterly into light.



Many are the ways by which he leads and heals us.



His peace heals us, his love heals us,

his wisdom heals us, and his purity heals us;



all of these, working together,

alternately and interdependently,

are his tonics.



His peace calms our restless spirits.



His love softens, warms, and opens our hearts.



His wisdom illuminates the way to him.



His purity encompasses and protects these three;

keeping us close to him, and undefiled by lesser things.



How simple, yet how abundant and inexhaustible

are his gifts; which combine to produce and to protect

the perfect health of our souls!



What surer signs could there be of his great love for us?