Starting from a “higher standpoint”
/Question 1: Share a physical healing or healings in which reading one or more of Skip’s articles played an important part in your own spiritual study and prayer and ultimate healing.
While I was in the process of reading Mr. Phinney’s articles, my daughter called for metaphysical support about a challenge she had to meet. I remember sharing with her ideas from the article entitled “‘Above all that we ask or think’” (Sentinel, December 26, 2016). In reference to the phrase in this title, Mr. Phinney writes, “It serves as a potent reminder to stop thinking about what I’m trying to accomplish with my prayer or treatment and have more of what God is already doing. I find those few words bringing me home to the basic spiritual fact that there is something far greater and more essential always available than the human mind’s impressions of whether it knows enough or is inspired enough.”
He ends this article by asking two vital questions that, when answered in the affirmative, bring tangible healing: “Are we today actually drawing on the vast resources of limitless divine grace and infinite Love that are behind Christ Jesus’ teaching and works, and that bring such astounding newness and power for change? Are we starting from the “higher standpoint” of the revelation of one divine Mind that will impart the consciousness of Truth and abundant spiritual understanding beyond anything a mortal human mind can ask or think?”
As with other healings experienced by our family, the belief that had led my daughter to call for help disappeared “as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation” (Science and Health, xi:12–14). After being absent for several days, my daughter was able to return to work, buoyed by the proof she had witnessed of divine Love’s care.