Testimony of Healing January 16, 2006 Issue

FREE TO MOVE ON, FREE FROM PAIN

KAY KEELOR

There was a time when everything in my life seemed to be in a state of flux because of my upcoming divorce. As I prayed for guidance, I remembered this passage from Science and Health, which includes two statements from the Bible: "'Work out your own salvation,' is the demand of Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you. 'Occupy till I come!'" (p. 22).

I looked up occupy in the dictionary, and its meaning was very different from what I had expected. Far from being passive—just waiting until a situation changed or improved—the verb demanded action of thought. One definition was "to take possession of, employ; to engage the attention or energies of; to fill up."

So I concentrated on filling my thought with what was spiritually true. The truth was that my life had not ended, because my marriage was ending. Nor was I cut off from good. It became crystal clear to me that I could trust God for His continuous unfoldment of good, and that I was perpetually blessed by my relationship with God. I was being called upon by God to express all the qualities of His/Her goodness now, to occupy and engage my life in service to God; to love others and take possession of all the good that is enduring to all of His creation. I was finding that I didn't need to disengage from life, but, instead, to live life to the fullest.

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