Just two years before I completed my undergraduate work at college, the need for eyeglasses became evident. My work was lagging behind schedule, and much physical discomfort attended each day's activities. Complying with the temporary need of the moment, I obtained glasses and began wearing them. However, I realized that this was only a temporary measure because the problem must be solved from a spiritually mental and eternal basis.
Prayerful work was done daily which included affirmations of God's allness and man's perfection as His expressed image and likeness, as well as denials of the material senses. "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them" (Prov. 20:12). This is a verse that I used over and over again, knowing that what God created was, is, and ever must be, spiritual, unchangeable, perfect, whole, and complete within itself.
Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 214): "Neither age nor accident can interfere with the senses of Soul, and there are no other real senses. It is evident that the body as matter has no sensation of its own, and there is no oblivion for Soul and its faculties." This passage was extremely helpful. But still the healing did not come.
