“…an entirely different view of reality”

This year, perhaps more than any other time in my life, I have been grateful to be a Christian Scientist. This year, unlike any other, the world has clamored continuously (at full volume) about the reality of disease. (Sidenote: I was Googling synonyms for “reality” and one of the few synonyms that appeared was “materiality.”) The most recent Parisian garment has taken the whole planet by storm, for the first time in most of our experiences. This insistence on the actuality of a virus that has constantly morphed in terms of its suggested causes and effects, has tried to push past the porter at the door of thought through a variety of different avenues, including every media source and all levels of government. The constant demand to self-identify with and scrutinize our mortal bodies has permitted mortal mind to have a heyday! More than the usual airtime such claims vie for, aggressive assertions of this particular falsehood have seemed to hang over the entire world like a guillotine blade.

I have been so grateful to hear an entirely different view of reality from Mary Baker Eddy, The Mother Church, and various other Christian Science sources. Mrs. Eddy commands us to look away from the body, to realize the only suggested power of disease is in mortal thought, and that God is truly the only power. Mrs. Eddy’s understanding that contagion is mental and not physical has been such an important counterargument to the world’s focus on human ways and means, including mask-wearing, handwashing, and physical distancing. Also, her realization (echoed by many current periodical writers) that a main cause of disease is fear is such an important recognition and refreshing rebuttal to any of the symptom suggestions that have come to many of us at various times these past months. Having a Christianly scientific method to refute every false suggestion, allowing us to see them for what they are, without power or reality, has been so comforting, as well as strengthening. I have certainly been thankful for Christian Science and the truth which was revealed to Mrs. Eddy, following in Christ Jesus’ footsteps.