Article December 26, 1970 Issue

Freedom from Emotional Bondage

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

Many persons who would never consider leaning upon alcohol or drugs for support nonetheless may rely excessively upon a friend or loved one. However, as all must eventually discover, depending upon a human companion is not a permanent answer to one's need for assurance and security, and at best such a situation can be marred by nagging fears of change and loss. Why is this? Simply because depending upon any source but God for a sense of well-being and happiness is a subtle form of bondage.

The First Commandment unequivocally states: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex. 20:3; And Mrs. Eddy writes regarding this essential spiritual guideline: "This me is Spirit. Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no truth, no love, but that which is spiritual." Science and Health, p. 467; One who may feel ensnared in emotional dependence upon someone else, who perhaps has spent his life in the shadow of another and longs to express a greater measure of confidence, security, and stability, can begin now to gain the dominion rightfully belonging to God's child.

Through a thoughtful study of Christian Science one is awakened to the unreliability of trusting human personality for what God alone bestows, and he begins to grasp an understanding of that higher, more permanent love which is spiritual. Since God, divine Mind, is the sole source of good, one's happiness, contentment, and sense of real worth are unchanging, ever present. Our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." John 14:10;

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