Article September 20, 1993 Issue

God holds us up

In giving up a sense of personal ego, we can lean on the sustaining power of God.

Barbara-Jean Stinson

It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, and I had gone out for a walk. That particular afternoon I was feeling quite pleased with myself and with all the good I had accomplished that morning. Suddenly, as though someone else were speaking, a clear thought sounded in my consciousness: "You wouldn't even be able to take this walk, if I weren't holding you up."

Instantly I recognized this statement as an angel thought from God. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy speaks of God as the only I, or Us. She writes, "There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence ..." (p. 588). How clear the message was that I should drop, absolutely drop, the belief that I could do anything of myself, and lean more consistently, more steadfastly, on God, divine Principle, as the very "I"—the life and intelligence—of my being. All real activity, indeed everything we genuinely are, is simply the outcome of all that God is doing and expressing in His idea, spiritual man, our true and only identity.

How timely this message was, for a few weeks later, while grocery shopping, I suddenly stumbled and fell against a counter. Nothing happened; I was perfectly all right except for being rather embarrassed. But for just an instant I was a bit frightened because I had stumbled over—nothing! Not even my own feet or the proverbial banana peel. Yet immediately the earlier lesson came to my rescue. God was holding me up! God is the source and support of my life and intelligence. Man, God's spiritual idea, doesn't move and act because of what brain, blood, muscles, and molecular action are doing. Movement, function, action, and intelligence come from God, the all-inclusive divine Mind. They have their source in God and are expressed spiritually in man, the perfect, eternal reflection of the divine Mind, the great and only I am.

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