My prayer in Pakistan

By Khorshed Langrana

Every morning when I wake up, I bless the world in my prayers, including the war zones. My prayer is to divine Principle, God, who is in reality the only commander-in-chief. By this, I don’t mean that God causes wars or wants them, but that His government of good must ultimately prevail, and that we need to trust that truth.

Near my home in Karachi, the ethnic violence has taken such a toll, along with power outages and no water. There are also riots that sometimes lead to a general strike. At times like this, I have to jerk myself from doldrums and rise in the strength of Spirit to realize that there is nothing impossible to God. I have to keep watch and pray, as Jesus informs us, and insist that calm has to prevail. And it does!

I love this thought from Mary Baker Eddy: “All good that ever was written, taught, or wrought comes from God and human faith in the right. Through divine Love the right government is assimilated, the way pointed out, the process shortened, and the joy of acquiescence consummated” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 292).

This shows that divine Love opens the way to good government and helps people see and accept it. We can also trust Love to uncover the discord that is never a part of God’s creation and government of the universe, including man. Healing alone will bring harmony and peace. Truth, Christ, destroys all chaos. These thoughts help me and also support my prayers for others who are afraid.

Divine Love opens the way to good government and helps people see and accept it.

I have sweepers to clean my compound and a dhobi (laundryman), who picks up my laundry. They are all fearful to come to work or walk on the streets. My task and duty is to assure them that they are all wrapped up in God’s love no matter who they worship. There is only one God and He loves them as His own sons and daughters, and He will protect them and take care of them. They simply have to remember when fear grips them that “God is love” as First John says (4:8).

I am so glad that each day when I would come home from my elementary school in the evening my Dad would tell me to be Christlike. I see now that he was a very spiritual man, and he used to tell me, “I am not your father and your mother is not your mother—God is your Father and Mother.” I didn’t understand this at the time, but after I became a Christian Scientist, I could see that it is true for all people. If everyone could believe this and live accordingly, peace would come and be permanent.

Many conflicts around the world and specifically in war zones bring to mind one basic spiritual fact: The law of God prevails. We can gain much confidence when we believe and trust in this truth. Mrs. Eddy wrote, “Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being” (Science and Health, p. 496).

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