Article June 23, 1980 Issue

Instant replay— through the lens of Spirit

JOHN LEWIS SELOVER

Anyone who has watched an athletic contest on television, is probably familiar with the technique of instant replay. Live action on the playing field is recorded on videotape and is replayed for the TV audience to review a significant event in the game.

One day while rock scrambling in California's Sierra Nevada, I took a minor fall and badly wrenched my ankle. It occurred to me to review mentally my attempt to climb the rock through a spiritual instant replay. Not to relive the accident in slow motion but rather to see the true facts of my being as a safe, secure idea of God—to stop the pain and heal the weakened ankle.

As a recreational skier and rock-climber, I had on a number of occasions felt the protecting and correcting strength of Christian Science healing. I knew that the power of God was at hand and that to feel its benefits I had to see this situation through the lens of Spirit. On a Christian and scientific basis I could see myself as God knew me and reject the mortal picture sketched in human memory as a fall. I could instead bear witness to unfallen and unbroken strength, resilience, and limitless activity, undamaged by the mortal notion of accident. The Gospels are full of records of Christ Jesus' healings through this Christian method, and I expected healing in my own case.

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