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God's law, not Murphy's
"If anything can go wrong, it will." Murphy's Law, that's called. Of course, it isn't really a law at all. But it might as well be, if we are harboring in thought—even amusedly—the notion that at times some power seems to be working against us.
As long as we are laboring under the assumption that we have no choice but to submit, aren't we, in essence, making it law? Thinking "This isn't my day" or "Just my luck" is a signal we're succumbing to "Murphology." But we needn't stay in its clutches another second. "You are a law unto yourself," Science and Health, p. 385. Mrs. Eddy points out in Science and Health, the Christian Science textbook. And later in the same book she states, "How important, then, to choose good as the reality!" Ibid., p. 481.
Did you know it is your God-given right and privilege to carefully, wisely, shape your own course without having to submit to supposed laws of accident, limitation, or chance? You can overcome unjust sentences.
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April 11, 1983 issue
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Good: how many sources?
KATHLEEN S. LUNDMAN
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God's law, not Murphy's
JUDITH ANN HARDY
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Self-government? or a ticket to Tarshish?
THOMAS C. ASHER
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Destroying destructiveness
EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT
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Sure dwelling
DARREN NELSON
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Here we stand
ELIZABETH GLASS BARLOW
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Prayer
ELIZABETH MELICHAR MARTH
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Radical reliance and the church member
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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The immediate availability of God's help
WILLIAM E. MOODY
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Who needs organization?
Marrin Hibbard Robinson
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Christian Science was first brought to the attention...
MILDRED S. FISHMAN
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It is impossible to fully express my endless gratitude to God for...
MARGARET V. FERRIS
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Two summers ago I went to the 1981 National Scout Jamboree
DARRIN SMITH with contributions from G. EDWARD GARNHART
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My family has been in Christian Science for four generations
CAROLYN E. SCHOOLEY with contributions from JOHN SCHOOLEY