I am most grateful for the joy and beauty that have been revealed to me through the study of Christian Science, for these are the qualities of thought that first attracted me to it. And I have discovered that it is all a matter of exchanging false concepts for right ideas, and that these ideas are ever present. One does not have to do something to get joy—as a sort of prize—for joy is present in the first place, along with the rest of Mind's ideas. He has but to admit the fact of joy, beauty, honesty, order, and so forth, as ever-present and ever-operative ideas of Mind, and claim them as his own identity in order to experience them.
There is no separation between Mind and its expression. Without ideas there would be no Mind; without loveliness, no Soul; without activity, no Life.
I have experienced the uplifting and healing power of right thinking, and have seen health and normalcy replace discord and disease. I have been healed of internal disorder when materia medica decreed that my only hope of recovery lay in an operation. I have been healed of pain when lying in a cast, walking—in half the time that mortal mind allots in such a situation—without the aid of crutches, and without limping. During this trying time, I had the help of a practitioner in a distant city, and there was not a day that some expression of Love was not manifested to me; and two persons, very close to me, who had not spoken to each other for years, became reconciled.
