Article March 17, 1997 Issue

Working for healing

David C. Kennedy

Imagine a hypothetical scenario: A lawyer, who is defending a mistakenly accused client, comes into court carrying an armful of lawbooks. During the trial the lawyer questions no witnesses, presents no evidence, makes no arguments. He does nothing but read those books! At the end of the trial, since no case has been presented for the defense—and all of the evidence and arguments have been on the side of the prosecution—his innocent client is found guilty!

This approach is preposterous, of course. But the illustration teaches an important lesson as it relates to metaphysical healing. In the Bible and in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, there are many wonderful statements about the supremacy, goodness, and allness of God. There are also equally wonderful truths about man's perfection as God's reflection, or image, and the fact that sickness and disease have no place in our true being. In order for healing to take place, though—in order for our inherent innocence, or spiritual perfection, to be demonstrated—we need to do more than merely read these truths. We have to utilize them, put them into practice, so that the truths can transform thought and heal the body.

A false, material concept of man is the source and substance of any physical difficulty. Physical ailments are essentially misconceptions about God and man manifested in the body—misconceptions that we've accepted either consciously or unconsciously. In order to root out these false concepts, we need to correct them with the truth of being.

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