Flawless Flesh

Mountain climber, Ed Viesturs, climbed the world's 14walked downhill, a sting was felt.
highest peaks, without the use of supplementalThe idea of flawlessness is possible. However, a
oxygen. Viesturs describes the expeditions in his book,human perception of a flawless foot would urge us to
There are No Shortcuts to the Top. The way I see it,get a needle, penetrate the flesh, and start digging the
Viesturs synchronized with the spiritual perception ofscoundrel pieces of glass out of our daughter's foot.
persistence and judgment. This is in contrast with tryingWe wanted to quiet this chatter and enter spiritual
to go along with the human perception of persistenceconsciousness in order to synchronize with a spiritual
and judgment, alias stubbornness and opinion.perception of flawlessness.
Viestures policy was: getting to the top is optional,As a student of Christian Science, I've learned that
getting back home is mandatory.divine Spirit is not only flawless substance, but also
Human beings find it counterintuitive to synchronizeimpenetrable substance. Nothing broken can enter
with spiritual perspectives. We are trained to act asspiritual consciousness. As the image of Spirit, our
though human perceptions are reality. But, humandaughter expresses substantial flawlessness. It was
perceptions can be walked away from, sometimesimportant that I not treat this principle as though it was
easily, sometimes with a struggle. However, thesome belief to accept blindly.
impossible becomes possible when we followThe principle of substantial flawlessness can be
instruction similar to this policy: Acting on humanunderstood and acted on. This meant identifying our
perceptions is optional, acting on spiritual perceptions isbeing with God via mental treatment. Although our
mandatory.metaphysical treatment ran against the educated belief
It is no small task to harmonize with spiritualwe are penetrable human beings, we spent a few
perceptions. Too often the human perceptions lull usdays affirming our flawless spirituality.
into doing nothing to save our self. Or, they cause usTwo evenings later, our daughter called me into her
to forge ahead into an avalanche of doom, especiallybedroom. She showed me the bottom of her foot. It
after immense time, energy, and money has beenhad a small hollowed out pit in it. No raw skin. No pain.
invested in a human goal.You could almost lay a dime in the indentation. We
However, spiritual perceptions are superior, supreme.were in awe. Obviously the glass pieces were
Spiritual consciousness attracts us to expanded views.removed. Within a couple more days, our daughter
Synchronicity with spiritual perceptions can occur in ourshowed me a smooth foot; flawless.
everyday experiences. For example.We don't need to be buffaloed into thinking we have
When our daughter was young, she accidentlyto go along with human perceptions; even though that
stepped on broken glass with her bare feet. Weis the way it has always been done. Experiencing our
quickly removed the glass shards and washed herintact, safe, flawless, progressive, intuitive, and strong
feet carefully. However, we unknowingly missed somespiritual being is not only possible, but more often
splinters and the skin grew over them. The glassguarantees reaching the human goal.
pieces were positioned so that when our daughter