Editorial November 14, 1977 Issue

Decisions That Support Healing

Nathan A. Talbot

Healing through prayer comes more quickly when we are willing to make firm and positive decisions. To drift into occasional, halfhearted Christian Science treatment is not the way to bring swift and decisive results.

Mrs. Eddy writes, "To decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error—whether error is manifested in forms of sickness, sin, or death—is the first step towards destroying error."^{Science and Health, p. 463;} Sometimes, when confronted with a problem, we may turn rather routinely to prayer as our way of finding a solution. But something more is needed: a distinct and sharp commitment. A powerful conviction, established now, can bring genuine potency to our goal of quick and effective healing.

Regardless of how long we may have delayed in mustering the necessary strength to stand firmly with specific conviction, it can still be done quickly; that is, it can be done now with sound, clear-cut certainty. When we make such a sincere decision—one that comes from the heart and grows out of a love for God—we will be more likely to recognize the impulse spoken of by Isaiah: "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left."^{Isa. 30:21;}

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