True contagion
/About a month ago when this latest virus wasn’t the tempest it is now, I had a realization about contagion. My branch church only holds Wednesday meetings once a month. On an “off” Wednesday, my son wanted to go to church, so we went to another one nearby. The readings were very straightforward on contagion, and at first I wasn’t that interested. But as I listened, determined to be touched by the Word, I realized a few things about the way we tend to use the word contagion:
We tend to think about it as the passing around of harmful, if erroneous, thoughts.
In other words, we’re really talking about it in terms of what it isn’t.
Suddenly, I realized the power of what it IS – the powerful and infectious spread of GOOD. You might remember that my son was bitten by a rattlesnake at a summer camp for Christian Scientists and their families. One of the senior counselors was on the scene and instrumental in our son’s healing. I was also “on the case” when I became aware of it. Then, I learned of a wonderful practitioner whose powerful and clear prayers were also present. (I wrote this up in the Dec 2018 Journal). Whose prayers were “the ones?” All of them!
What happened that day was the purposeful and unassailable contagion of Truth, lighting the way for all of us who were witnesses in that moment. In my son’s affidavit for the testimony he says while he initially felt panic that gave way to the calm of the group. Truth and Love were on the scene and infectious that day, spreading through every thought striving to acknowledge the truth.