Article March 23, 1981 Issue

Priority

WILLIAM WELSH HOLLAND

Driving home for vacation, George began to feel feverish and uncomfortable. When he remembered that several people in the college dorm had recently come down with German measles, he resolved not to let illness upset his plans to take Liz to a movie that evening. She would be heading out West in a few days.

George was a Christian Scientist, and he began to pray. Over and over he affirmed that God was the only Mind and power and that disease, therefore, had no intelligence or ability to harm him.

But by the time he pulled into the driveway of his home and greeted his mother, George was feeling worse. At first he thought he would go ahead and see Liz anyway. After all, he asked himself, wouldn't calling off his plans be giving the very power to disease he had been denying all afternoon? Something inside, though, told him that wasn't quite right, that exposing someone else to his still unchecked belief in contagion would be contrary to the Golden Rule, contrary as well to the affection he felt for this girl.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

Priority

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access