Article November 18, 1985 Issue

No harm done when divine Love reigns

JUDITH M. CHAPMAN

Have you ever turned to the Father with the desperate lament "Help, I'm being stoned! What's worse, I live with the thrower." Or perhaps your boss, co-workers, or neighbors are the present-day Pharisees who would scorn and willfully obstruct your course? How about you? Do you, too, try to use personal influence, to push and shove your own way? Are you contributing to the resisting and retaliating of others?

If we're thinking, "It sure feels like a stone," aren't we very close to believing that harm has been done or soon will be? With such reaction, we may become despondent, resentful, or involved in outright conflict.

That we need not be buffeted by such volatile circumstances, or that harmful effects can be disarmed, can seem too good to be true. Christian Science, however, showed me the answer that makes all the difference. I found the following statement in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy to be the solution: "There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality—to have no other consciousness of life—than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses."^{Science and Health, p. 242.}