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Lifted higher by the Christ
There’s a computer game that I love to play. My friend and I always try to see if we can beat each other’s highest score, to see who can say that they are the winner. I often think that I won’t be able to go higher than my friend’s highest score, or even than my last score, but I keep trying until I do.
Aren’t we all striving to reach a higher goal in life, too? I know I am. Daily I try to lift my thoughts so that I can see the truer picture of all that is around me, and so that my thoughts can reach for a higher understanding of God. I know that I can go higher with God—and that the Christ will show me the way.
At one point in my life, I didn’t understand the Christ. I thought in terms of God: I talked to God; I prayed to God; I listened to God; I followed God’s direction. But then when I went through Christian Science Primary class instruction, my teacher asked all of his students to write a paper on the Christ. I knew that the Christ was the message of God’s love, brought to us by Jesus, but not much more than that. I told my teacher that I didn’t think I could write this paper. He smiled and said that I knew the Christ even if I did not think that I did. He suggested that I read and study pages 331–334 in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and assured me that they would give me a better understanding of the Christ.
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