A friend once said to me, "All the trouble anyone ever has comes from thinking about the physical nobody which he is not, instead of appreciating the spiritual somebody which he really is." A few years ago I experienced symptoms of what I believed to be cancer, and I found myself thinking about "the physical nobody." The disease was very real to me, and all the beautiful truths that I had learned in Christian Science did not overcome my fear and pain.
I went to see a Christian Science friend and asked for his help. He said: "You can believe this lie for five more seconds, five more minutes, or five more years; or you can cease believing this lie right now and be free. It is entirely up to you." Then he quoted a statement by Mary Baker Eddy from her book "No and Yes" (p. 24), "There was never a moment in which evil was real."
"There has never been a moment when disease existed," he said. I went home repeating this statement, and I realized that it was true, for disease could not possibly exist in God's creation. I was greatly uplifted, but I continued to be fearful and in pain.
