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Distorted vision corrected
I awoke alarmed very early one Tuesday morning with a burning sensation in my left eye. I got out of bed to get a drink of water and noticed my vision was distorted and blurred.
I knew from my study of Christian Science not to “stand aghast at nothingness” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 563), and I knew the distorted vision was truly nothingness, as it didn’t come from God. According to Christian Science, the belief in the material senses, including the material sense of sight, is nothingness, because it is the opposite of the true spiritual sense of sight—of man and woman “seeing,” or perceiving, as the reflection of divine Mind, or God. To “stand aghast at nothingness” would have been to become afraid on the basis of believing in two separate creations—one material and the other spiritual—and accepting the material as truer or more real than the spiritual. I knew that true sight is a faculty of divine Mind, and in reality there can never be a separation between me and divine Mind, God, nor a disturbance to me as the reflection of Mind.

November 6, 2017 issue
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From the readers
Debby Miller, Robert Cowen, Marie Longpre-Adams
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Lazarus and the biosphere
Eric Thacher
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Let’s practice, let’s participate
Irene Schanche Bowker
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‘In the midst’ with the Christ
Candace Lynch
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Only God’s goodness ‘runs in the family’
Anne Hughes
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Prayer for my goat
Dasha
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Menstrual discomfort permanently healed
Joan M. Greig
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Distorted vision corrected
Raymond Glazner
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Healing of dizziness and hearing difficulty
Sabine Imhoff
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Inspiration ends knee pain
Rachel Richardson
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Still small voice
Joni Overton-Jung
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Common ground on Chesapeake shores
By Story Hinckley, staff writer
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How can we pray for our environment?
Ingrid Peschke
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You are essential!
Kim Crooks Korinek