Article August 14, 1978 Issue

Problems are solved by looking up

FRANKIE L. THOMAS

There was nothing impractical about Christ Jesus' approach to life. When feeding the multitude, we are told, he took five loaves and two fishes, "and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled."^{Matt. 14:19,20;} Jesus lifted his thought above an illusory, temporary, personal sense of God and man to spiritual reality. He saw true substance as Spirit, limitless and unceasingly satisfying.

Jesus viewed the world from a higher, spiritual state of consciousness and saw the untroubled reality of perfect spiritual being. The effect of his perception was healing.

Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes, "To strike out right and left against the mist, never clears the vision; but to lift your head above it, is a sovereign panacea."^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 355;} One definition of "panacea" is, "a remedy for all ills or difficulties."