March 6, 1989
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A woman is convinced she has only two alternatives in her marriage—separation or oppression. But through a deeper living of the Christ, Truth, she finds a third answer—healing.
"An aura of lastingness accumulates around people who have loved for a long time, and it comes across beautifully even to people who have never experienced love that can be reckoned in decades.
Article
There's
something to be said for experience.
what can break down the stereotypes of women and men? What shows us we are much more than poor copies of old patterns?
Sometimes it can look as though we're stuck with a very troublesome status quo. But this writer found that a better understanding of God and His creation revealed new possibilities.
Like the man Christ Jesus healed of being born blind,Or like being born blind,I found my entire being mentally deepIn a world of darkness,Not discerning the truth, the light.
Don't we always want to be learning and growing? And if our efforts are bringing us closer to God, then our lives will have real meaning and direction.
The light of Christ is not a patchwork quiltIt is a seamless garmentSo we cannot be satisfiedwith stitching our lives togetherinto pleasant little patternsThe only real patternis the one of transfigurationThe light of Christ is a transformernot a seamstressThe Christ not only mends, it restoresand renews and reveals what already always has beenAnd every time we part withour preconceived pieces,our this-is-how-it-should-work-out outlookwe are blessedand robed in light,a light that also warms the world,the Christ light, which is not a quilt butthe Comforter.
Take another look at your life. Could it be that you've overlooked your own innate spirituality, which develops the Christian power to heal?
In
the year 1970 I became acquainted with the Bible, which I had never read, although my family adhered to a particular religion.
Although we lived in a small community that had no Church of Christ, Scientist, my whole family regularly read the Bible Lessons found in the Christian Science Quarterly and attended Christian Science lectures in neighboring communities.
My first testimony was published in the August 25, 1962, Sentinel and included a healing of cancer in its last stages.
Because both my wife and I had been raised in Christian Science, we had learned from experience how natural and effective the practice of this Science is in health care as well as in resolving other problems.
At one time I wrestled with a personal relationship situation that seemed to dominate my waking hours.
