No season for flu

Sue Rohde

Every year when the weather turns cold, we hear over and over again what we are to expect. And according to the news, people are suffering from just about everything. Could it be possible that they are accepting as true whatever they hear about disease and expecting certain symptoms to appear? This is why we need to take a stand against contagion before and during what is called the flu season.

This stand is effective when based on an understanding of God's law, which maintains that reality is spiritual because God is Spirit and All. And man created in God's likeness is spiritual and real. Therefore a description of a material condition like the flu cannot touch man or cause one of God's children to suffer, because the condition and the description of it are fundamentally unreal and powerless. Matter does not govern man; Spirit does.

In Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy says: "You command the situation if you understand mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being. Mortal mind is constantly producing on mortal body the results of false opinions; and it will continue to do so, until mortal error is deprived of its imaginary powers by Truth, which sweeps away the gossamer web of mortal illusion. The most Christian state is one of rectitude and spiritual understanding, and this is best adapted for healing the sick" (p. 403).

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