Article May 22, 2006 Issue

Going UP With God

BY MARCEIL DELACY

Another full day ahead. Not a good time to slow down. Yet I felt droopy and in need of a break. The phrase "I'm coming down with something" persistently repeated itself in my mind, and the physical symptoms of flu were fast developing to prove it. What to do?

One of the few certainties I've come to trust in life is that there's a spiritual solution to every problem. So I tried to push aside the fear that was telling me to expect the next few days to be miserable. Then, with a little clear space in my mind, I listened for some kind of spiritual insight to break through with a healing message. I'd learned to identify such breakthroughs with Christ—"... the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness" (Science and Health, p. 332).

As I retreated to that quiet space of listening, known as prayer, the words coming down stood out in bold relief. Of course! That's exactly what I'd been doing—mentally "coming down," feeling burdened, pressured, dumped on. OK, then, to reverse the progression of symptoms, I needed to lift my state of consciousness out of this bog into which I'd inadvertently fallen.

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