The Home I Grew up in was in a valley surrounded by snowcapped mountains. I loved looking at them. But even more, I loved hiking in them with my brother. He always taught me to look ahead and to memorize the hiking trail we were on. He reminded me not to get bogged down with the pebbles and rocks but to look where we were headed. This not only made the hike easier, but it always seemed that we got to our destination faster.
Christ Jesus' healing
works proved man's
spiritual perfection to
be permanent fact.
When I'm praying for the healing of sickness or some other trouble, I often think of those days hiking. I'm reminded to look "straight ahead," in thought, to the spiritual perfection of God and man. I don't have to create that perfection, any more than I have to create the grand mountains and their glory. The truth of being, like the mountaintop, is already present. My job is to keep my thought on that truth in order to demonstrate its presence in healing.
