Editorial July 21, 1986 Issue

Mind knows how to heal it

ALLISON W. PHINNEY, JR.

Have you ever wondered how a bodily illness, with its complex processes, could be fixed "just through prayer"? If we're honest, most of us would have to admit we've had a question of this kind at one time or another.

To take an example of something like flu, we might wonder how fever could be lowered, abnormal secretions changed, chills arrested, and so on. And yet Christ-healing, as understood in Christian Science, has frequently done all this.

But what about a more serious situation? A friend of mine, early in her practice of Christian Science, was asked for help through prayer to heal a punctured eardrum. She wondered how it could be corrected. It seemed so definite. But she turned away from the human mind's question and was obedient to God. She found that God, who Christian Science teaches is infinite Mind, wasn't put off by the question at all. And the healing followed.

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