Article September 6, 2010 Issue

PRAYER FOR PROGRESS IN GOVERNMENT

Bruce Fitzwater

A spirituality.com chat earlier this year featured Bruce Fitzwater, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science from Portland, Oregon. He has been in the work of healing spiritually for over 30 years, and was a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship for 11 years. Bruce has traveled widely, to many different parts of the globe. This text has been edited for readability. To read and/or listen to the whole chat go to spirituality.com/chats/government.

There's a temptation to feel overwhelmed by the national and international issues facing us today because they seem so big and beyond ourselves. How can we overcome these feelings, which lead to apathy?

Turning to the all-power of God is certainly the fastest way to handle fear. I first gain a sense of God's love for me and for the world, for its beauty and harmony. I think of that wonderful statement in Genesis, first chapter, where God sees everything that He has created, and, behold, it is very good. And with the strength of that conviction, I begin to realize that my personal sense of things is mistaken—that it's my personal sense which needs to be transformed.

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