Article May 24, 1993 Issue

Challenging impositions

You're not helpless in the face of difficulties; you have God-given authority to challenge and heal them.

Sandra M. Justad

It is often said that "timing is everything." In the practice of Christian Science we might say, "Perspective is everything." Are we viewing ourselves and our relationship to God from a material or a spiritual perspective?

Our answer to this question can play a large role in determining how we view events, relationships, circumstances— which in turn determines our happiness and well-being. If we perceive ourselves as vulnerable mortals, separate from our creator, we're seeing matter and its supposed laws as reality; we think, act, and make decisions on that basis.

If we come to see that reality is instead, in its truest sense, spiritual and wholly good, evolving from God, creative Spirit, and that we can never be separated from infinite good, we find ourselves governed by spiritual law. A growing understanding of this law, and increasing conformity to the moral precepts found in the Ten Commandments, help counteract the false sense that we're subject to chance or accident.

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