Article February 22, 1975 Issue

My Enemy, My Friend!

HELEN R. CONROYD

How easy it is to love those who love us, who enjoy what we enjoy, who think the way we think!

But what about those who don't? For instance, the neighbor, the business associate, the organizational co-worker, or member of the family—who through jealousy, ambition, rivalry, or domination appears to resent you—opposes you or wants to get you out of the way? Aren't these enemies from whom you should defend yourself? Look a little deeper. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Can you see an enemy, except you first formulate this enemy and then look upon the object of your own conception?" Miscellaneous Writings, p. 8;

Although I'd been serving as an official in an organization in a pro tem capacity for a number of months, I was passed over at the time when permanent appointments were being made. Not just disappointed, I was deeply disturbed, for the reason given for not appointing me—that I lacked experience—was so obviously an untruth. I felt the reason was only an excuse for a dominant person on the board of officers, who were responsible for all appointing, to stifle my progress.

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