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Sit in Heaven and Laugh
Perhaps occasionally in our human relations someone has unjustly maligned us and caused us much mental anguish. Then forgiving and forgetting seems hard to come by, and resentment takes over our mental home.
Such was the experience of a student of Christian Science. Then one day she recounted to a friend, who was a Christian Science practitioner, the falsehoods and abuses to which she was being subjected. The practitioner saw how ridiculous the falsehoods were. She also pointed out that any supposed mortal mind unlike the one Mind, God, was itself a liar. She said: "We don't believe the lies of a fictitious mortal mind and can't be hurt by its taxings. The Bible says of God. 'He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.'" Ps. 2:4; Then she added: "You can claim your status as God's reflection. You can sit in heaven and laugh." This aroused the student, and gratefully she sought the deeper meaning of this quotation.
The student saw how she had let herself become trapped into becoming unhappy by not being alert in her defense against belief in a mortal mind. She followed the practitioner's advice to "sit in heaven and laugh" at the absurdity of a carnal mind and its errors. She thought: "Why 'imagine a vain thing'? v. 1; Why dignify error by giving it a place in my consciousness, when I can sit in heaven and realize mortal mind's nonexistence and God's presence?"
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July 27, 1968 issue
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The Ethic of Divine Love
DORINDA B. LE CLAIR
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Followers of Christ
GRAHAM CAMERON DRISCOLL
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The Healing Mission of the Church
MADELINE KEENE WOOD
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DOMINION NOW
Vera Sohr Kelly
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The Healing Touch of Tenderness
RUSSELL E. HAPPEY
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Sit in Heaven and Laugh
MARIE LOMBARD
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"Of Christlike touch"
MAXINE A. HARE
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MINISTRY
Hazel Harper Brandner
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The Foolishness of Friction
Helen Wood Bauman
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The Way "which leadeth unto life"
Alan A. Aylwin
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I did not come to Christian Science for healing
Erna Miller
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When I was a boy nine years of age, my family lived in a house...
Bruce Morse Benton with contributions from Clarice Benton
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My introduction to Christian Science came when I married a...
Loretta M. Simon son
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"All things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:28)
Mabel Frances Tydeman with contributions from George C. S. Tydeman
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My first published testimony appeared in...
Ila Margaret Jennings with contributions from Jo Emmett Jennings
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RADIO PROGRAM NO. 329 - What Does It Mean to Be Involved? Part I
Robert McKinnon with contributions from Robert Peel
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from D. S. Page, J. Harry Wood