Article January 1, 2001 Issue

All those frogs—gone

We began to think of the economy as the continuous supplying of good from God.

By Donna Grimm

Life Was Great. We were coasting along, happy and undisturbed. Our needs were being comfortably met, and we even had treats once in a while. But suddenly, some of the big problems in the world began to touch our lives in ways we'd never expected. Failing economy. Downsizing. Age discrimination. We faced insecurity, financial trouble, unemployment. Definitely, no more treats. In addition, a daughter returned home needing financial support.

A plague had come on our family's wellbeing, just as miserable as the infestation of frogs that plagued Egypt long ago when the country's leader refused to release the Hebrew people from slavery. The Bible tells about the frogs in the book of Exodus: "And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed" (8:3). It was a prediction that came to pass. The financial troubles that were plaguing us seemed like those frogs.

Trying to ignore them or hide from them didn't help. But some guidance on how to pray did: "The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it" (Science and Health, p. 233). To me, this applies not only to physical disease but to financial disease as well. A counterfact corrects something that purports to be a fact, but isn't. There's a spiritual counterfact—something to be thought—with which to solve our problems. Disease—dis-ease—of any nature is opposite evidence of the fact that we are God's loved children, always under God's care and protection.

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