Editorial August 15, 1994 Issue

No resentment

Barbara M. Vining

In the face of injury or offense, you want to take a position of strength, not of weakness. You want to overcome evil, not be overcome by it.

Resentment is a position of weakness. It is self-defeating. It is not a mental attitude in keeping with the teachings of Christ Jesus, and it is a hindrance to one's successful practice of Christian Science. As Mrs. Eddy says, "The Christian Scientist cherishes no resentment; he knows that that would harm him more than all the malice of his foes" (Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 19).

Why is resentment harmful—even more harmful than the thoughts and actions of other people or than the very circumstance we may find ourselves in? Because when we think or say "I resent," we are accepting the belief that something other than God has power, and that it has power over us—that we are at the mercy of circumstances, and that the best we can do is grin and bear it.

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