Most of us who take pictures, whether with a high-end camera or a cellphone, would agree that aim and focus are key to a successful photograph. You point the camera at your subject, then hold it still until the view through the lens is sharp. When you’ve attended to these important steps, you can expect the resulting photo to be clear and not distorted.
In the same way, aim and focus are key to healing. I have found that thinking about these principles of photography helps me better understand my relationship to God and see that relationship demonstrated in good health.
Spiritually speaking, what does it mean to aim? It means deliberately turning our attention to Spirit, God, rather than matter. Mary Baker Eddy is instructing us to take careful aim when she says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “… we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way.” She goes on to say: “We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives. Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love—the kingdom of heaven—reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear” (p. 248).
