Article March 10, 1973 Issue

You Don't Have to Become Bitter!

EDWIN G. LEEVER

Overcoming bitterness can sometimes be a difficult business. It requires breaking through any self-pity, cynicism, and resentment that try to engulf us.

Here's one way we can do it in Christian Science: We can pray to see that the turbulence we're going through humanly is not really true about the man whom God has created. We can pray to start awaking to the fact that in our true God-given nature there's nothing to be bitter about. No person, no situation, no circumstance, can ever touch our spiritual selfhood as God's man.

Such prayer is practical. It purifies our consciousness, lifts the heaviness in our hearts, dissolves deep hurts, and removes ugliness and unpleasantness in our human experience. We start enjoying life again. As one wife said to her husband who was coming out of such an experience, "Welcome back to the land of the living."

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