Article April 1, 1967 Issue

Who Does the Work?

JOHN R. PETERSON

I awakened one night several years ago with an attack of acute food poisoning. I had to get out of bed and work vigorously in Christian Science to be free of the extreme pain. I prayed earnestly to be able to receive an angel thought from God. These thoughts are always awaiting us under all circumstances and are always sufficient to bring immediate and complete healing.

The thought that came to me was that I did not need to struggle to make Truth true. It already was true. I did not even have to make the truth of my being true. The truth of all being is forever completely true. Surely it would be presumptuous to attempt to make God be God. He is already God and forever will be God, and nothing has the slightest power to change this eternal fact.

I saw that it would be unnecessary and indeed foolish to attempt to make divine Love loving. It already is loving. I did not have to make divine Life express itself as the harmonious activity of all being and of my being. It already does this and forever does it as the operation of the divine Principle that constitutes and governs all being.

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