For almost a year, one of my ears was plugged up, and I had very limited hearing on that side. For a long time I just accommodated the situation—for example, choosing to walk next to someone on the side where I was hearing better and turning on that same side in bed to listen to JSH-Online.com podcasts as I fell asleep. 

Meanwhile, I continued to pray about many other issues and saw healing results in my daily life, for which I was grateful. One day, however, as I was out for a walk, I began to pray about my God-given faculties. I knew that because God, our Father-Mother, is infinite Mind and always exists in a state of perfection, He wouldn’t have made or sustained an imperfect state of any kind, including poor hearing. I reasoned that since man—each one of us—is His image and likeness, as stated in the first chapter of Genesis, I always reflect all the perfect faculties of Soul, God, right here and now. I also realized that divine Mind does not need matter as a medium to give expression to perfection, but that these faculties and qualities of Mind exist spiritually, as do all of God’s ideas. 

When I got home and sat down to lunch, I was sincerely grateful for God’s presence, and I found myself saying thanks to God. I spent a moment contemplating man’s oneness with God, as expressed by Jesus in his life and works, and the fact that each of us has this same beautiful relationship to the one divine Father-Mother.