Article March 15, 1993 Issue

Healing through prayer— be radical and persistent!

The practice of Christian Science requires courage and perseverance, but the rewards are worth it.

Sue Rohde

Does the word radical conjure up in your thought a militant group bent on violence? Or perhaps a person who is far-out in his or her beliefs and opinions?

A dictionary definition of the word includes "making extreme changes in views; carrying convictions to their fullest application." We need to be radical in this way to find a truly reliable basis for security, health, and peace. And the change of view needed is from a material standpoint to a spiritual one. But such a standpoint is natural because it involves total reliance on God, our creator, and it brings the freedom that comes from shifting our view of what actually constitutes life and not allowing ourselves to be governed by conventional ways of thinking. We need to take a stand for the truth of man's real, spiritual being as the child of God, the idea of Mind.

We have been immersed in the common belief that our lives depend upon material structure. This does appear to be the case. Yet the Bible says man is made in the image of our creator, who is Spirit. Therefore man is actually spiritual and perfect; he is not the fallible mortal he appears to be. And because man is the perfect idea, or creation, of the one infinite God, man belongs only to Him, dwells within Him, is cared for by Him. Being spiritual, the real man cannot be governed or even touched by materialistic logic or theory.

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