Article July 16, 1927 Issue

Obstructions Removed

MYRTLE V. GREGORY

In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 328) we read these words: "Whatever obstructs the way,—causing to stumble, fall, or faint, those mortals who are striving to enter the path,—divine Love will remove." If the true import of these words were understood by all mankind, heaven—harmony—would be recognized as the only desirable state of being. When we realize, even in a degree, the magnitude and scope of the word "whatever," as used by Mrs. Eddy in the above quotation, thought begins to expand and enlarge, and the earnest student of Christian Science glimpses therein the straight and narrow way to harmony.

"Whatever obstructs the way . . . divine Love will remove." There is a positiveness and finality about these words which at once brings to consciousness a sense of courage and unbounded hope, an increased understanding of the omnipotence and omnipresence of divine Love. There are no qualifications here, no conditions other than a willingness to be guided by divine Love.

"Whatever obstructs the way"! And is not our way obstructed whenever we parley with error and give it seeming power, be it as a belief of sickness, sin, sorrow, indifference, or any other phase of wrong thinking that is in our consciousness, crowding out the Christ, the only true model? When error in any of its multitudinous forms seems to oppose our progress, we can rely on this promise and know absolutely that divine Love will remove the obstruction, the wrong thought, just in the degree that we are willing to give up a false sense for the true, and to let divine Love guide and direct our every step.

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