Article July 22, 1985 Issue

Wrong name or right identification?

ALICE W. COOKE

How important right identification is to us! We don't appreciate being labeled dishonest, for example, when we have done nothing to deserve that adjective. We may even feel a twinge of displeasure when someone misspells our name!

What should be our response, then, when we feel sick? Should we agree immediately with whatever evidence presents it-self? We don't have to. Christian Science tells us we can disagree and refute the evidence of sickness on the basis that it is unjust and untrue. Sickness does not represent us as we really are—God's harmonious ideas, expressing His well-being, wholeness, and freedom from all discord.

Aside from the fact that it does us no good to give in to that which works against our health, there is a sound reason for rebelling against disease: Disease is not the essence and reality of our nature and identity as God's children, His spiritual ideas. It is incorrect, illusive thought, which seems to take form as some discord of the physical body.

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