Dear Friend,
With the new year upon us, perhaps you’re mulling over a list of resolutions: promises you intend to keep and things you hope to accomplish. Yet, as anyone who has made such a list knows, however well intended, resolutions often end up falling by the wayside as the weeks and months go by.
But there is one, as the Journal’s guest editorial by Thomas Mitchinson suggests, that you, along with every reader of this magazine, hopefully have at the top of your list and are endeavoring to keep: “Be a better healer” (see “Our resolution to be better healers,” p. 52). Why? Because it’s natural for those who have hearts to want to relieve the world’s suffering—to heal more consistently, more confidently, more immediately.
The editorial notes that Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered the metaphysical method of healing she called Christian Science—and established this monthly magazine to put this divine Science on record—wrote to one of her students: “I retain my conviction that the greatest need that our Cause has is better healers” (Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, p. 209).
And we can be better healers. Christ Jesus remarked that those who believed in him would do even greater works than he did. But, it does take work, as the editorial highlights—a dedication to studying the letter, the Word of God, and imbibing the spirit of Christ, which Jesus manifested. “It calls for a consecrated desire to learn more each day of the allness of God, and then to demonstrate that we are the children of this great Deity.”
Every article in this January issue, from “Yearning to understand the Bible” (p. 5) to “Infinite inspiration” (p. 22), along with the many testimonies of healing, nurtures our desire to be a better healer.
The resolution to do so is impelled by nothing less than God, Love itself, and nothing can prevent us from keeping it.
Suzanne Smedley, Staff Editor
