From the Editors April 14, 2014 ISSUE

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During street construction around Boston this past year, traffic signs appeared all over the city that read: “Please expect delays” in blinking lights.

“Please” expect delays? Of course this is the highway department’s effort to slip a bit of civility into the delivery of some unwelcome news to drivers. But the message has some interesting implications—blinking lights, you might say—when we draw parallels to our metaphysical commitment to healing.

It’s here that we can leap-frog past road traffic to mental “traffic”—the worldly suggestions of illness, relationship challenges, financial worries, etc.—that would keep us from expressing our innate health and harmony. Expressing what comes from our infinite source—God, good.

Jesus gave no thought to delays of any sort because he spent no time entertaining a lie.

Mary Baker Eddy states in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Stand porter at the door of thought” (p. 392 ). What clear, concise guidance to maintain the quality of our consciousness as Mind’s spotless idea, unsullied from those worldly suggestions. But when fear tempts us to ignore our post as porter, and we get mesmerized by the human picture, aren’t we unwittingly saying to this or that suggestion, “Please—come on in”? And then, just as unwittingly, can come a “delay” in feeling the instantaneous healing power of divine Love.

Jesus gave no thought to delays of any sort because he spent no time entertaining a lie, regardless of what form it appeared to take. He said: “The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me” (John 14:30 ). And Mrs. Eddy gave her own definitive statement of truth about a lie: “Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that it is illegitimate, because you know that God is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin” (Science and Health, p. 390 ).

Our “abiding conviction” is certain, since God can’t possibly entertain a lie. That’s because in an infinite Mind, there is no lie. And as God’s idea, we can’t include something Mind does not.

So how can we play host or hostess to any suggestion that says, “I’m sick and I can’t get better” or “My family will always be the cause of my unhappiness” or “My financial situation is irreversible” or “My prayers for world peace can’t ever be effective,” knowing that we are sustained and maintained by divine Love’s infinite power? Why would we give these thoughts any welcome at all—instead of giving them the decisive and determined goodbye that Christian Science directs us to do?

Science and Health says, “Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence and Life” (p. 215 ).

This is the healing truth that is present and active right now. Without delay.

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