Two people ride into a city. One notices the houses, schools, and office buildings. He is an architect. The other observes the various makes and conditions of cars on the streets. His hobby is rebuilding cars. It's obvious that each sees what he is thinking about— what interests him most. Don't we all? And doesn't this hint the importance of what we dwell on in thought?

The fundamental questions, the most important for us to ask ourselves as to what we think, are "What is God?" and "What is man?" To begin to understand God and man, and to continue to grow in this understanding, affects our viewpoint concerning every detail of our lives.

The Bible tells us that "God is love" ^{I John 4:8;} —infinite, ever-present Love. Our creator, then, our source, the very Life that sustains our existence in the eternal now, is Love. This means that man, created in the image and likeness of God, is immortal, spiritual, loved, and loving. Whatever we know humanly of the joyous and wondrous qualities of love is only a hint of real being and God's infinite love for us.

Once we begin to accept and appreciate God, divine Love, as our true creator, or Parent, we also begin to realize that Love is the Father-Mother of all—the source of all true being. This leads us to see that in dealing with others we are really dealing with our brothers. The fatherhood of God means the brotherhood of man. The real man is the spiritual creation of divine Love, not the material creation of mortal man.

Christ Jesus knew this. Mrs. Eddy makes the notable statement: "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." ^{Science and Health, pp. 476, 477;}

Jesus taught men to see themselves as sons of God, as spiritual. He said to his disciples, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see." ^{Matt. 13:16;} We tend to think that man is what the five physical senses tell us about mortal man. But the Bible reveals that man is the image and likeness of God, and God is not a material, physical being. He is Love.

Christ Jesus came as the Way-shower, the Exemplar, of Life, Truth, and Love. He came "to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." ^{Isa. 42:7;} He demonstrated the power of Love to bring men out of the prison house of matter—to heal the sick, the lame, the blind, to transform and regenerate lives gone astray, to raise the dead.

Jesus challenged the testimony of the physical senses, and was the victor because he understood that God, divine Spirit, is man's creator. He taught his disciples to think of themselves as sons of God, and told them, "One is your Father, which is in heaven." ^{Matt. 23:9;} This same God is our Father.

Through long study of the Scriptures to learn how prayer heals, Mrs. Eddy discerned the divine Science, or law, of healing that the teaching and healing works of Christ Jesus explained and demonstrated. In her own words, she discovered that "the physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation." ^{Science and Health, Pref., p. xi;}

Does an understanding of God and man really help us in a tangible way? A young woman I know discovered that it brings into focus whatever we need to see to accomplish healing. She was losing the sight in one eye. Brief attacks of blindness came, and continued to come. Having experienced many healings in Christian Science, she knew that God's power is always present and God's goodness eliminates evil. So she prayed earnestly to see and understand the truth she needed to know to correct the error in her thought that was appearing as blindness.

At first, each time an attack came, she prayed to know that God, Love, is the only power and the only cause, and therefore there could be no effect from anything other than this one primal cause. But when the attacks became more frequent, she knew she had not been specific enough in denying the evil and knowing the truth. Each day, as she studied the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly, she kept her thought open and receptive to the healing truth. She was looking!

One morning, after nearly a year of prayer and study, the beatitude "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" ^{Matt. 5:8.} came to her thought with such clarity and vigor that she realized a deeper meaning than she had ever before seen in it. It was like a revelation. "Have I really been trying to see God, good?" she asked herself. "Have I been pure in heart, or have I been seeing faults in others, even in my family—the very people dearest to me? Can the pure in heart do anything less than look for good in everyone they meet?"

What a rousing demand this new direction of thought made on her! Her job from that moment was crystal clear. She was to see good—then she would be seeing God. And to see good, she had to look for it.

She found she had to challenge her thinking constantly. How often she had been looking for faults! What a release to be looking for the best in everyone, to be looking for God's spiritual man! And the more she looked for the good in others, the more she found it. Her sense of real love was growing.

The attacks of blindness faded out of her experience altogether. She was healed. Not only was she healed of eye trouble, but of a far more serious problem—faultfinding and uncharitableness, a true lack of vision.

We all see what we are looking for. Do you want to find health, joy, integrity, loveliness—qualities that constitute God's spiritual creation? Then look for them. They are all around you.