Article June 19, 1948 Issue

PASSING THROUGH THE VALLEY

KATHERINE PUFFER

Sometimes it seems that the hardest problem which comes to a student of Christian Science is the one which tests his willingness and ability to go through a difficult human experience and maintain his poise, peace, and confidence in good as the only reality. To refute mortal mind's claim to project its situations with their assertions of reality into the experience of one who is earnestly striving to advance Spiritward requires steadfast clinging to the spiritual facts of being.

Such an experience came to the writer recently when she was faced with the necessity of finding a new home. The hotel where she lived was sold, and a month's notice to vacate was given. The first thought on the part of both members of the family was a statement of truth. A sentence from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 66), "Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love," brought encouragement during the testing experience that followed. At one time it seemed that a place had been lost through lack of alertness, but in the subsequent working out of the problem and realization of God's government of and provision for man a much better and more reasonable place was eventually secured. "New views of divine goodness" appeared and flooded thought with gratitude and peace.

Sometimes more serious problems confront us, and we may feel that we should have been able to avoid the trying experience, but to one who is sincerely living the good he knows, a disturbing human experience may be the result of spiritual law compelling him to go up higher, to leave the unstable basis of mortal belief and find reality in Mind and its ideas. Error naturally disappears before the sustained consciousness of ever-present good.

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