For some time I had been working on overcoming various health issues. I thought of these as my fix-it list. My plan was to pray about the first problem on the list, and when that was healed, go down the list to the next item demanding attention. However, despite diligent daily prayer, my fix-it list never seemed to get shorter. There were some improvements in my health, yet none of the problems ever completely disappeared from the list. 

What am I doing wrong? I wondered.

One day I realized I had things backward. I was trying to proceed from a standpoint of focusing on problems rather than on God, Spirit. My list presumed the reality of ill health, based on a belief that I am a combination of Spirit and matter and that healing is about removing something undesirable—but apparently real. This is the exact opposite of a Christianly scientific approach to healing, and is actually a deterrent to healing.