Article February 25, 2019 Issue

Getting unstuck

Holly Suhi

I was more than a little annoyed one morning—with good reason, or so I thought. While emptying the utensil basket of my new dishwasher, I discovered that the blade part from my little electric chopper was stuck in the basket. I pulled and turned it every which way, but it wouldn’t budge. Even after several more days of washing cycles, it was as stuck as ever.

Suddenly a lyric in a hymn from the Christian Science Hymnal came to me: “All the way that we must go / We will take at Thy direction” (Edith Gaddis Brewer, No. 85). Aha! The concept of letting God reveal the answer, as opposed to forcing something to go my way, came through loud and clear.

Without another thought, I gently placed two fingers around the plastic top of the blade and turned it ever so slightly. Out it came. Could it be that this small dishwasher dilemma pointed to a deeper concept: that we can be free from the temptation to believe that—regardless of our faithful efforts—we can be impossibly stuck in various situations and need to force our way out?

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