Article March 21, 2005 Issue

A SPIRIT-FILLED DAY

By Patricia Kadick

BRIAN KISSOCK IS A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER FROM SAN DIEGO. California. He also enjoys a game of golf. When a neighbor discovered this, he invited him to join a group of regulars.

One Wednesday morning, after weeks of play, they stood on the tenth tee. One of the group, a medical doctor, said to Kissock, "I think that's cancer on the side of your face. Have you had it checked out?" Kissock was stunned. He'd been aware for a while that there was a growth on his face, but he'd really thought "it would just go away." And he admits that the doctor's comment gave him a jolt. Even as he was thanking him for his concern, he says, he decided he would "check it out" that very moment—that is, "check it out of my thinking."

The doctor meant, of course, that he should have it examined medically. But Kissock had decided there was a better way—and that he did not need to go anywhere to begin treatment. He immediately began the mental exercise of checking the suggestion that he could be in danger right out of his own thinking—perhaps as one might check out of a hotel! In other words, based on his study and practice of Christian Science, Kissock decided right there on the fairway not to give thoughts of a cancerous growth a place to stay in his thinking. And he realized that the appearance of this condition "must no longer continue to mesmerize me when I look in the mirror."

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