God and Flu

It is interesting to think about these two things together. Actually they don’t go together—at all! It would be like putting light and darkness together. We can’t have light and darkness in the same place any more than we can have God and the flu in the same place.

So is God absent? No. God is ever-present Life and Love. Darkness isn’t something in and of itself; it is the absence of light, isn’t it? The epidemic of disease is also not something of itself—it is the supposed absence of God, or ever-present good.

So the big question for each one of us is, are we going to believe it and fear it? I read something very telling on the front page of the paper yesterday. The news writer wrote, “. . . fear of the swine flu spreads as fast as the illness.” Mary Baker Eddy who discovered how Jesus destroyed disease and explains how we can do it ourselves, wrote in her book Science and Health, “Destroy fear, and you end fever.”

So how do we destroy fear? Make a choice in our thought, know that God, good is present and therefore disease cannot be present and spreading. Believe in God rather than disease. Trust God, rather than fear disease or a power opposed to God. God is the only power and presence. That is what Jesus was showing us with all his healing works. He proved that God is present and doesn’t create or allow disease but destroys it.

God loves each one of us so much and She is with us. Lean on this ever-present Love and it will destroy the fear of disease, and conquer the disease. We can do this, together. It will turn the tide.

Originally published on www.time4thinkers.com, January 2010.