Has it ever quietly dawned on you that someone you wanted very much to help through Christian Science probably needed to correct something wrong deep in his or her own thinking?
And has it ever seemed to you that this person just wouldn't let go of his errors and therefore you couldn't reach him? For example, you might have reasoned that because you couldn't manage to change the aspects of a person's character contributing to the problem, healing was blocked.
If we have got into the habit of thinking this way about cause, we're apt to have more reasons for not healing than for healing. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy makes a statement that should serve as the ultimate reference point for all our prayer and treatment: "Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms."Science and Health, p. 262.
