Article June 29, 1968 Issue

Turn to God

MILDRED D. JOHNSON

Is there one who is weary, bowed down with sorrow, struggling with discordant relationships, plagued by lack and limitation, ravaged by sickness or disease, or simply seeking a higher concept of the meaning of life? Then let him turn to God.

"But I have turned to God," one may say. "I've done all I know how to do." Yet the mere fact that inharmony, dissatisfaction, or sickness remains indicates that the turning has not been complete. Mrs. Eddy reminds us that "we are all capable of more than we do." Science and Health, p. 89;

Let us often ponder the word "turn" as we strive to put off materialistic thinking and living and assimilate spirituality. God is Spirit, and to turn to Him is to turn toward Spirit and away from matter with all that it includes. To turn means to change one's course or direction. How often thinking tends in the direction of matter and remains in the depths of poor health, an an unhappy home life, the apathy of materialistic ease, and other forms of error! Yet a turning from material thinking to the consistent contemplation of spiritual ideas and to living the truth would lift us out of these conditions, which are actually self-made.

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