Poem March 15, 2021 Issue

Wholehearted healing

Peter Ward

Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared
to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals.
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures, pp. 476–477

“Jesus beheld in Science
the perfect man, . . .”
not a blind man,
not a withered, crippled man,
not a hypocrite,
not a feverish woman,
not a woman bowed down,
not an adulteress or adulterer.
Jesus did not simply see a single story.
He saw . . .
“the perfect man.”

Does this not tell us of our view, too—
that we need to see the whole of man,
“the perfect man”
beheld in Science, apparent,
the spiritual identity held complete?