Article July 27, 1981 Issue

Treatment in a psalm

ALETA DOANE ARGABRITE

God sends us each hour, each moment, the thoughts we need for spiritual progress. But only as we remove the false sense of self do we heed these messages, apply them, and heal by their presence in our thinking. Insights may come to us through a Bible verse, a sentence from Mrs. Eddy's writings, a line from a hymn, an article in a Christian Science periodical, or from a moment of complete surrender to the wisdom of Mind, our Father. We may have heard the statement before, but at this particular moment it has a new meaning—a special clarity, the touch of the Christ.

The psalms are full of many beautiful healing themes. Once I was a victim of misunderstanding, accused of faults I did not feel were even humanly true about me, let alone about the spiritual self I was endeavoring to demonstrate daily. Charges that I was selfish, greedy, unkind, were hurled at me by someone I much loved. After this, everything seemed off-balance and out of focus.

I felt I had no one to turn to except God. Opening a Bible, which lay in the motel room where I was, to Psalm 37, 1 asked God humbly, "Give me something to do, to think, to know." These words stood out to me: "Trust in the Lord, and do good .... Delight thyself also in the Lord .... Commit thy way unto the Lord .... Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him."^{ Ps. 37:3–5, 7.} Studying these verses gave me four points to work with: to trust God; to commit every thought to Truth; to be joyful; to wait expectantly for Mind. I became very busy realizing the full import of those directives as I prayed.

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