Several months ago a young mother telephoned and asked me to pray with her for her young son. During a medical check-up he'd been diagnosed as having a problem with one of his eyes. His mother told me that her son had remarked more than once that at times it was dark in one eye. She added that she would have to take her son for another check-up in three months. At that time, the doctors would decide what needed to be done for him.
While she was telling me this, I silently thought about order, and how order is a quality of God and is firmly established in God, or Spirit. Reasoning from the standpoint of God's perfection, and of this boy's perfection as God's child, I concluded that nothing about him could actually be out of order. This little child was the expression of order, and of other qualities of God, because God was his Father, Mother, and Parent.
While praying with the spiritual insight that man is the reflection of God, I realized that nothing could ever come between God's reflection and its original. Because all true seeing and all true action exist forever and remain unchanged in God, or Spirit, this child could never actually lose his sight. Nor could the source of his vision—God—become dim or dark. What was especially inspiring to me was that this request for prayer came a month or so after I had done an in-depth study of a case in which Mrs. Eddy had healed a child's eyes that were in need of care.
