Article March 13, 1995 Issue

Mistakes have no hold on us!

Written for the Sentinel

Have you ever been so angry or hurt that you've said or done something that you later wished you hadn't? I certainly have, and I've sometimes thought about how nice it would be if you could just clear away those moments and start fresh in much the same way a videotape is erased. Obviously, life doesn't work that way, but doesn't mean we're condemned to replaying mentally those unhappy events over and over again—or to making the same mistake repeatedly. Understanding even a little about the nature of our Father-Mother God, divine Life, and putting that understanding into practice, can completely eradicate distress and even negative ramifications of unhappy events.

What a freeing thought! But is it really possible? These ugly experiences can seem so concrete, so real. How can we get rid of them without suffering some sort of memory loss or without repressing mental images of a given incident? We can do it by knowing something of what is real and what is not.

We tend to trust things that we can see with our eyes and feel with our fingers. But these things can be destroyed; material objects don't last forever. There is something that does, however, and that's God. God, Spirit, being eternal, is true reality and substance. God's Spirit, idea, man, is completely at one with Him. This is our true selfhood. We actually live in God, so we can never really be touched by anything that He didn't make. Anything that isn't purely good doesn't come from God who is infinite good; and if it doesn't come from God, the one creator, it isn't real. Therefore we are not obligated to suffer from it!

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