Article April 3, 1989 Issue

Genuine healing, not a cover-up

Oswald J. Phillips

I Went into the garden one afternoon to remove some weeds from our vegetable patch. This particular weed has corms that break off from the roots as the plant is removed from the earth. In order to avoid propagating a new growth of the weed, extreme care is needed to seek out and remove all the corms. I had been thinking that day about the continual attention needed to root out error from our thought.

As I weeded I likened the weeds with their corms to erroneous thoughts. As we seek to know God better, we need to eliminate erroneous, disease-producing concepts from our consciousness and replace them with a spiritually based understanding of the allness of God. When error is exterminated by the Science of Christ, Truth, it is utterly destroyed, never to return. I saw how meticulous one needed to be in clearing erroneous beliefs out of thought so that every error is exterminated, not just covered up to propagate anew later.

I could see that each time consciousness is freed from even a small amount of error, healing takes place. In our garden the effect of my careful weeding was evident when this section of the ground remained relatively free from this particular weed over the next few years. And careful weeding of thought has a similar effect, as we can see in two familiar examples from daily experience: business and health.

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