Article August 16, 1975 Issue

I Have No Trouble!

MARGUERITE DEWS

If I really believe that God, the glorious Principle governing the universe (including me), has complete control here and everywhere—if I really believe this—how could I possibly have a distressing problem? How could I think that God controls everything but does not have dominion over some little facet of my experience that is causing trouble?

Christian Science makes plain that Principle, Love, could not be omnipotent in some cases and powerless in others. Mrs. Eddy says, "Either there is no omnipotence, or omnipotence is the only power." Science and Health, p. 249; Then what about this little trouble I have? Why does it persist?

Any form of discord is a denial of the all-power of God. It is a belief that some power, however slight, is in control of a part of being. Since, however, this belief is without substance or power, because not of God, how can it hold on to me? The startling answer is that it cannot possibly hold on to me; I hold on to it. I have to be willing to let go of this pretense of power, this suggestion that God is not always All-in-all, before I can know my natural state of freedom.

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