Article May 12, 1980 Issue

Understanding eternal Love heals

SARA SANFORD DALY

My eight-year-old son had fallen from a fast-moving bicycle, hit a tree, and seriously wounded his head. Two months later an unsightly, bare scar remained on the top of his head to remind us of the incident. Saddened to see his appearance so marred, I called a Christian Science practitioner for help. She pointed out that his real being as the perfect child of God had never been the victim of an accident and so there could be no effect from something that had never really occurred.

At that moment I gained the strength and determination to stop recounting the experience to others, to give up a demand for sympathy and comfort. Soon, contrary to what medical belief would have predicted, the hair had completely filled in over the bare spot, leaving no evidence of any injury.

There is healing power in willingness to give up our time-based, material concepts for the perfection and purity of our real existence as God's children in the eternal now. Both physical and emotional scars can be wiped away by a fuller realization that we exist right now in the kingdom of heaven as God's secure and happy children, forever untouched by the sorrows and difficulties of mortal experience.

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