Immunity From Contagion

        One could hardly be unaware of the concern  many people have these days over the Ebola disease and its possible spread.  Case in point:  I was talking with a mother and daughter a few days ago at a favorite breakfast place when the conversation turned to this topic.  Esther said, "We've cancelled our flight to California for Christmas (their former home).  My husband is afraid to fly right now. He doesn't want to endanger any of us."

        Later in the day, I turned to something Mary Baker Eddy wrote that has given me comfort several times.  "A calm, Christian state of mind is a better preventive of contagion than a drug, or than any other possible sanative method; and the 'perfect Love' that 'casteth out fear' is a sure defense."  Miscellaneous Writings, p. 229)

        In harmony with the Bible's spiritual meaning, Christian Science shows that man is inherently pure and whole--not a mortal, flesh-and-blood creature, who is subject to fear, contagious diseases, and death.  We are actually God's spiritual offspring, not at the mercy of whatever disease is  believed to be prevalent, not helpless before fear of becoming a victim of it.  Divine Love, the tender Father of all, by virtue of HIs allness, excludes whatever is unlike His pure nature.  This truth destroys any supposed evidence that we could be subject to disease, suffering, death.

        The Science of Christ teaches the importance of realizing that matter, or physicality, can't talk or lay out conditions for us.  That which claims to possess power coequal with God does not; nor can it inferfere with His governing of us.  There is no material intelligence to oppose God, divine Mind. What's more, the loving Father is never telling us we're fearful, weak mortals in a vulnerable situation.  The greater our spiritual conviction that God is all-powerful and ever present, the greater will be our freedom from fear.

        Regardless of what disease outbreaks may be predicted, the fact remains that God is the only power and presence, and man is inseparable from His omnipotence.  Armed with these powerful truths, we can prove the immunity that divine Love gives us from contagion and demonstrate our eternal unity with God, good.  In God--in divine Love, where each of us has his true, uninvadable being--there is no fear, no disease,to make encroachments on our health and well-being.