Article August 12, 1991 Issue

Grateful for rebukes? It is possible

It can be tough when we're corrected. But learning to look through the lens of perfect Love, we'll find that healing will replace the hurt.

Frank Brunner-Schuster

[Original in German]

Perhaps you can recall an instance where you were criticized—and how vehement your reaction was, how wounded you felt. Why can rebukes be so difficult to bear? Isn't it because of the image we have of ourselves—the human ego we identify with and the desire to make a good impression on others? After all, we of ourselves are good, aren't we—filled with the best of intentions, able to plan things rightly and respond correctly to events? But behind this attitude lies the view "we're flawless, thus blameless human beings—man made in the image of himself."

Christian Science refers to the source of such reactions as the belief in a personal mortal mind or mortal self. Yet it also explains that such a mind, such a mentality, must be a lie because God alone is omniscient, the one real intelligence, or divine Mind. And it is through spiritual or divine sense, which is our ever-present, God-given faculty of perception, that we recognize our genuine selves to be Godlike, the image of this Mind and therefore perfect—as our Father-Mother God is perfect.

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