Article November 14, 1983 Issue

Say "no" to colds

LINNIE CALLISON HEASLEY

"I won't!" was the joyful answer one woman gave to a friend's solicitous counsel, "Don't get a cold!"

What made her reply with such assurance? When flu and cold seem prevalent, aren't we liable to catch them if they come our way?

No, indeed we are not, if we understand that God's man is not a material being who could be attacked by a supposed germ. God is Spirit, and man is His likeness; therefore one's true identity is spiritual, even if one seems material. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Mrs. Eddy reasons: "Is God Spirit? He is. Then is man His image and likeness, according to Holy Writ? He is. Then can man be material, or less than spiritual? As God made man, is he not wholly spiritual? The reflex image of Spirit is not unlike Spirit."^{Message for 1901, p. 8.} Being spiritual, man is untouched by materiality.