Article October 30, 2017 Issue

No obstacles to God’s care

Cynthia Cowen

My young horse thought a blue tarp on the ground was about the scariest thing ever! Whenever he was led to walk over it, he would leap up, contorting his frame in a sideways motion to avoid being near the tarp. For a while, he couldn’t see beyond what to him was a big blue obstacle—although he eventually did.

There may be times in our lives when we feel we are having a “blue tarp” experience—occasions when an inharmonious situation of some sort that is confronting us, such as an illness, a relationship issue, or financial woe, looms so large on our mental horizon that we can’t see anything else.

At such times I would often pray to make that “something” go away. But I soon realized that praying to try to make “it” go away was the real problem. Mary Baker Eddy explains in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that making a reality of disease or discord is not conducive to the healing we desire. She writes, “It is mental quackery to make disease a reality—to hold it as something seen and felt—and then to attempt its cure through Mind” (p. 395).

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