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An open letter to a friend
My dear,
You raised a question earlier today, and it does deserve an answer.
You asked how God could be governing you, because you thought He let you be injured.
To help answer that, I’m going to start with a few questions. If the clouds covered the sun and the day were grey, would you pray for the sun to stop making things dark and dreary? If night fell, would you say the sun stopped shining and allowed you to experience darkness?
The answer would be “No” in both of those cases. The sun never stops shining and puts forth only light. Light cannot see or make darkness.
Although the sun is not God, thinking about divine Principle and Love in a similar way might help grow our spiritual understanding of what God really is, and what He isn’t.
God is Spirit and is constantly knowing our spiritual individuality as whole, good, intact, and knows we are always in our right place. This is what God, Truth, understands about us.
Light cannot see or make darkness.
God, the infinite and only Mind, does not know accidents, because accidents can’t occur in God’s allness. It is only the mistaken human belief that we live in a material body—separate from God, subject to chance—that falsely suggests the possibility of injury. When we or someone who prays for us truly understands that we’re spiritual, that God does not allow any accidents to occur, because God does not include error, this truth transforms our thought and spiritual healing happens. That’s because an accident is a lie, an error, and the sooner we leave behind the mortal line of reasoning that would accept the possibility of accidents, the sooner we are healed.
People who apply God’s laws of love and harmony in their lives have often been quickly and permanently healed of burns, broken bones, cuts, and countless other injuries. They have even been protected from experiencing accidents that seemed humanly inevitable.
This statement from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, points to a law of God, and it’s something you can study and use. Understanding it will help you be free of injury or pain in the future. “Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction and thus bring out harmony. Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection” (p. 424).
If you don’t understand this completely, then it will be helpful to have someone who does understand it pray for you and help you see God’s power to overrule the effects of accidents.
Every step of spiritual advancement—good thinking and good deeds, loving, forgiving, and healing—is a step forward in understanding God and His love for you.
With all my love,
A friend