Article June 4, 1966 Issue

Sweetening the Waters

MAXINE LE PELLEY

After the children of Israel had been delivered from the pursuing Egyptians, they were so grateful that they sang praises to Almighty God for making their escape possible. Shortly thereafter they came to the wilderness of Shur and the waters of Marah. Here they found that they could not drink the waters, they were so bitter. However, God showed Moses a tree which, when cast into the waters, made them sweet and fit to drink.

Many of us today, when confronted by adversity, may taste the bitterness of mortal mind's frustrations. However, through an understanding of God in Christian Science, those of us who will may turn a bitter experience into a sweet one. Like the children of Israel, we may be tempted to react to a crisis by questioning God's ability to resolve human problems intelligently and justly. The Christ Science, however, has come to enthrone God, good, and His Christ in human consciousness. Bitterness and frustration may be proved to be unnecessary, unreal, and impotent. Having no place in the divine Principle, God, they have no place in His likeness, man.

Enthroning God, the one loving Mind, we dethrone personal sense, the illusion of many minds. We lay upon the altar of a higher worship our own egotism, impatience, and pride. We exchange the sophistry of intellect for the infallibility of divine revelation. We allow true spiritual perspective to express itself in applied integrity, applied meekness, and even applied cheerfulness.

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