Where I Live there's a weed that I've found particularly interesting. At one point my yard was full of it. I dreaded removing the weeds because they appear to be very difficult to pull. They spread out long and wide and fill every niche they can. After putting it off for a few weeks, and giving the weeds a chance to infiltrate my yard even more, I began pulling them up. Then the lesson came. I realized that these particular weeds have taproots —main roots, So when I gathered the weed together and pulled, the whole weed came up. Just one pull. That's it. It didn't take long before my yard was cleared of this pervading weed.
When we're weeding our mental garden, so to speak, there's a need to get to the center root and not be sidetracked by all the small roots spreading throughout human thought. When the main root is pulled, the whole mental weed comes with it, and it is destroyed. This concept is especially helpful in the healing of sickness and disease through prayer. It's important, of course, to be specific in dealing with the errors that underlie sickness. And yet there is always a fundamental error that needs to be addressed through a perception of God's, Spirit's, infiniteness.
What is at the root of thought, needing to be removed, is the belief of life and intelligence in matter. When this root is pulled in relation to any difficulty—when we see clearly that man's being is entirely spiritual, untouched by evil influences or conditions—our thought is in harmony with God, divine Mind. Thought is no longer divided between belief in good and evil, health and disease. The natural result is the obliteration of whatever difficulty we faced.
