I can pretty much guarantee that when someone prays for healing for themselves or for someone else, they are actually praying for a cure! Same thing, right? Well actually no! Even though they are often used as being alike, they mean different things. Cure Means Treat and Fix To pray for a cure means that you wish to eliminate or put into permanent remission some disease or illness like cancer, or mental illness, or addiction- or maybe a disability like blindness, deafness, or loss of mobility. You want a physical recovery that permanently alleviates some harmful condition. Curing looks at the how and what of illness. It views the body as a piece of physical machinery that can be treated and made better. It sees organs, and systems and wants to understand how they break down and what can be repaired to eliminate the problem. It doesn’t take the mental state into consideration. Curing is what doctors and nurses, and medical procedures, drugs, surgery and chemo and radiation all attempt to bring about. They are striving to discover what is wrong physically and remedy it. Healing, on the Other Hand… However, healing implies the involvement of the attitude, mind and spirit- to become whole and sound in body and soul.  True healing is the attaining of a sense of well-being…….