Article January 28, 2019 Issue

A view of others that heals

Margaret Wylie

Have you ever considered that seeing someone differently could bring healing? That seeing someone in a new light could bring healing to you, a situation, a relationship, or even that person?

I once was speaking with a Christian Science practitioner about a problem I was having with someone. (Christian Science practitioners are individuals who devote their full time to praying for others.) I told her, “It doesn’t matter what I think or do—he will still do the same thing.” The practitioner then suggested a better way of seeing the situation. She said I should start seeing the individual from a spiritual perspective—as made by Spirit, God, who made everything “very good” (Genesis 1:31). I realized I had been accepting a limited and material view of this person as selfish and uncooperative. Seeing others from this perspective is seeing them as separate from God and lacking good, whereas a spiritual view perceives them as created by God and expressing only the qualities of God—including honesty, justice, integrity, mercy, and all that is spiritually good and pure. I realized that if I wanted to see more of this spiritual reality, what needed changing was my view.

The Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, explains that it was this spiritual view of man that enabled Jesus to heal others. She writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick” (pp. 476–477).

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