Some years ago our children used to refer to a house we had lived in earlier as "the blue house." That's the way they remembered it. They had warm, nostalgic memories of growing up in "the blue house." The funny thing is it never was blue —it was gray!
Sometimes we are familiar and at home with things that aren't necessarily fact. St. Paul gives an interesting example when he speaks of being "at home in the body" and "absent from the Lord."
II Cor. 5:6.
It seems we know the body quite well—only too well! But this human familiarity need not be confused with divine reality. Christ Jesus' healing works set aside what must have been, to those healed, familiar sensations of pain and limitation. He showed that the great fact is we live as the expression of God, Spirit. And Christian Science continues to show, through healing, that the impression of living in matter is mistaken.
