Testimony of Healing June 17, 2002 Issue

Spiritual growth brings physical healing

Daniel C. Bort

Early this year my wife, Diana, gave me a big hug, and as grateful as I am for it, that's not my reason for writing. She asked what it was she felt on my back. I said I didn't know. She said, "You have a lump on your back."

By twisting in front of a mirror I was able to catch a glimpse of the lump, but I decided that if I was going to look to my body for evidence of truth, I was already conceding defeat. I knew I needed to pray, and the first thoughts that came to me were these: "I am fundamentally a spiritual creation and not material; there is no imperfection in God's conception of me, and nothing can be imposed on the concept that an infinitely intelligent and loving Mind has of me."

I've come to think of goodness as "the presence of the right idea." Regardless of what appears to be going on—anger, reaction, physical problems—whatever puts us out of kilter is really only a thought coming to us that "the right idea" of someone else, or of oneself, isn't present. Or. that goodness can be absent. In such situation I'm learning to ask myself, "What standard are you measuring against?"

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