Article January 10, 1994 Issue

Immediate forgiveness

Anyone can feel God's love, can forgive another, and feel genuinely blessed.

William Preston Badger

I Was working part time at a television station and vying with another person for a particular job. I'd been called to this assignment on the day in question, only to find that this other person was there ahead of me, doing what I, not he, had been called to do. He'd come in early, knowing there was a need. He got there first, even though he hadn't been called.

Under the circumstances, rather than complain, it seemed more proper that I leave, which I did.

While walking back through the city streets to my apartment, feeling a load of hostility, personal animosity, and, frankly, hatred, I realized, being a new but ardent student of Christian Science, that the more I hated, the more I was suffering over the incident.

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