Article April 3, 1976 Issue

Patience: A Healing Quality

JEANETTE F. SUTTON

The expression of patience, charity, unselfishness, forgiveness, makes us receptive to the ever-present, beneficent government of divine Life, Truth, and Love, and thus contributes vitally to our happiness and well-being.

One who has had many quick healings through the application of Christian Science may be tempted with discouragement or impatience if a healing seems delayed. But realizing that negative thoughts interfere with his response to the healing power of Christ, Truth, he will be impelled to discard them as false and baseless, having no place in his true, spiritual consciousness. In reality, man possesses spiritual understanding, because he reflects all-knowing Mind, God.

Disease or deformity of any sort, even if called incurable, is but an illusion of material sense, without reality or power, cause or law. Disease and suffering never become part of one's actual spiritual being, which as God's likeness is changelessly perfect, free from all inharmony. Evidence of disease must disappear as one courageously and patiently affirms and reaffirms the spiritual verities of God and man that Christian Science teaches. The Bible tells us: "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."^{Heb. 10:35,36;}

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