Article May 23, 1994 Issue

"Tie up the loose ends"

Virginia A. Miller

A woman had just finished sewing together the sections of a sweater she had knitted. As she was tying dangling pieces of yarn on the inside of the sweater, she thought, "You need to tie up the loose ends!" She began to laugh because, although she had often used this expression, this was the first time she'd understood that these words perhaps originated with knitting. At the same time, she found herself remembering someone who had once expressed hostility toward her. As she thought about the saying, she realized that it was an "angel message," that it was evidence of spiritual inspiration, with meaning far beyond its connection with the sweater.

Through her study of Christian Science, she'd come to know that hostility is no part of the nature of God, infinite Love, and therefore it could never be part of God's perfect spiritual image, or idea, man. Accordingly, she knew that enmity is a false belief about man, which needs to be impersonalized and seen as powerless.

Animal magnetism, described in Christian Science as the false, mortal belief that there is a power apart from God, puts forth the lie that man has a mind and life separate from God, who is in reality the only Life and Mind. This belief claims that man can be the agent or the victim of evil.

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