How important it is, in Christian Science healing, to be willing to be healed! Most of us have known someone who has held to sorrow over the loss of a dear friend or family member, feeling that "it just wouldn't be loyal" not to grieve. So long as such a belief is held to, the healing of grief doesn't come.
But, of course, loyalty to the ones we love who are no longer with us requires not less but more God-given vigor and joy in our daily living. God is our source and home, as He is theirs, and our joy proclaims our certainty that they are progressing, as we are, under His loving provision. It is a false sense of them, not loyalty, that would hold us in bondage. We can give our consent to healing and be set free.
Exerting our willingness to be healed is needed more often than we may imagine. We all have occasions for laying aside the errors that would prevent right thinking and the legitimate activity that follows from it. How shall we proceed in dropping off erroneous beliefs? By accepting into consciousness thoughts motivated by divine Principle, cherishing these thoughts, acting upon them. Such spiritual activity flushes out the error that would hold us in bondage. In turn, as we relinquish error, we have the joy of seeing the right thought unfold in expression.
