Editorial September 16, 1985 Issue

How do we know if we're progressing?

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

One way to effect progress toward Christian healing is through the spiritualization of thought.

If through prayer and study we are being spiritually regenerated, if our thoughts and actions are becoming more Christlike, if we are recognizing more clearly the unreality of disease and the allness of God, Spirit, that's a good indication of true progress. In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mrs. Eddy writes: "Progress is spiritual. Progress is the maturing conception of divine Love...."^{Miscellany, p. 181.} As we grow in our understanding and expression of God, divine Love, we learn that disease is never even a possibility in the divine presence. God's perfection absolutely excludes anything unlike His all-pervasive harmony and wholeness.

If we're constantly checking up on the body to see if it harbors disease, this action implies that we're not fully accepting the absolute allness and supremacy of God, in whom there can be no discord. The body is never neglected through spiritual growth but rather benefited and healed, for the body is the outward manifestation of thought. And when thought is regenerated, the body embraced in that purer consciousness is regenerated, healed.

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