Church Alive September 24, 2012 Issue

Feelings of resentment dissolve

Bhuvan Dhand

This post can be found on christianscience.com/church-alive.

One Wednesday, I attended a testimony meeting at my Christian Science Society. During this meeting, a woman stood up and spoke about how her purse had been stolen on a bus and how she was able to catch the thieves. In the end, she forgave them and did not press any charges against them.

At that time, I noticed that I had been harboring some resentment against a person for a while. 

Last year, my father’s sister died. My grandfather and grandmother, while traveling to the place where the last rites were to take place, got into an accident. While at the red light crossing, a person hit my grandfather’s car. My father, mother, and I were nearby and had seen the accident. We quickly started praying that accidents are “unknown to God” (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424). My grandfather and grandmother were completely OK, and we decided not to press charges against the person, who was from another state in India.