A more spiritualized vision

Mirta Piccoli

First printed in El Heraldo de la Ciencia Cristiana, the Spanish edition of The Herald of Christian Science.

I have always enjoyed good eyesight, but a couple of years ago I found it increasingly difficult to see. At one point it was hard for me to discern the faces of people at a distance. And reading sometimes became cumbersome.

I faced this situation calmly, knowing that if I turned to God in prayer, I could have a beautiful opportunity to delve into all that I had been learning through the study of Christian Science.

I was grateful to be able to do this, and I even thought that if I had to wear glasses, I would resort to them, but not permanently. It did not come to that. At times I had the aid of a magnifying glass, but never with a feeling of dependence.

When I turned to the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, I found this definition of eyes:“Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 586). This word mental struck me as if I had never taken it into account before. And I thought, “mental eyes.” This gave me a sense that eyesight is mental and spiritual, that it transcends material limitations. What’s more, when I looked up the synonyms for the verb “to see,” I found that it meant to discover, experience, watch.

This made me think that when we see, we discover things that lie beyond the merely material form. For example, many times when we understand something during a conversation, we say, “Oh, I see,” which is to say that we discover something that is being said to us. In other words, this seeing is the spiritualized vision of understanding, of reasoning, of divine reality. The Bible refers to it many times.

The Bible has many stories that tell of this spiritual sense of eyesight. For example, in the beginning of the third chapter of Exodus is an account involving Moses, when he saw a burning bush that was not consumed by the fire. From this description, I understood that the ideas that originate from God, that proceed from this perfect Mind, are not consumed. Sight or any other faculty, such as hearing, touch, voice, cannot be consumed. I discovered that the true sight we have, the one God gave us, is eternal. And this was of great help to me.

Although it took several months, I was always calm, trying to intuit these truths about my vision. I was also grateful for all the years I had seen without any difficulty.

One afternoon, I was reading at home by a window. I was so engrossed in what I was reading that when I finished the article, it was late in the afternoon, and that’s when I realized that I had finished reading without any difficulties and without needing to turn on the light. I was completely healed.

It was a wonderful healing! And my happiness was huge and permanent, because since this healing I’ve never given up my reading hobby, and now I also spend several hours every day on the computer. In addition, I never have eyestrain, and I feel a pleasant coolness in my eyes. This was a truly tangible demonstration of the power of divine Love, of Spirit, and of perfect Mind in my life.

I consider it important to search, to investigate what God has in store for us. Sometimes one may get impatient, and that is why one might quickly resort to wearing glasses before turning to God for help. In my case I was able to turn to God very calmly.

The Bible tells us, “In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength” (Isa. 30:15). This is a great truth that all can demonstrate.

Mirta Piccoli
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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