I had always prided myself on my super-perfect hearing. I could, as the saying goes, "hear a pin drop in the next country" even after I became a senior citizen. But a few years ago I discovered I was not hearing well in one ear.
At first I didn't take it seriously, thinking this just couldn't be happening to me. That was my first mistake; all evidence of physical difficulty should be denied with the spiritual truths of Christian Science. But I kept on thinking it would just go away in time. It didn't; giving power to time to make things better, of course, simultaneously gives time power to make things worse.
Then I did some perfunctory praying, declaring some of the timeworn, pat statements of Truth we sometimes resort to when we don't feel like taking the time to pray sincerely in order to uncover the error. But as I well knew, it's not words (the letter) that heal; it's the state of consciousness from which the statements of Truth are made that is effective. And it's what is thought, rather than something physical, that needs adjustment. And still the hearing in my other ear was so excellent that I wasn't disturbed.
