Editorial July 20, 2015 Issue

How disease loses its ‘reality … and disappears’

Barbara Vining

We all know how difficult it can be to give our attention to God when we are in need of physical healing, and especially when we are in pain. But when we are yearning for healing, just a simple and sincere desire to turn our thought to the living God is a good place to start. As Mary Baker Eddy states in the textbook of Christian Science, “The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 275). And Love is certainly what we instinctively want to feel when we need comfort and healing.

The Bible reveals divine Love as always present for us, and as principled—as always dependable—because it never varies: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (James 1:17, 18). Those “good gifts” include health and holiness, which God has given to us, and maintains in us, as His spiritual image and likeness—gifts that never vary, but are constant, reliable, and ready for us to acknowledge and experience.

When we are yearning for healing, just a simple and sincere desire to turn our thought to the living God is a good place to start.