December 5, 2022
Facing what we fear
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If we are ever tempted to try to avoid an experience we believe might be uncomfortable, cultivating a desire to love, by being willing to listen to Love and feel Love’s presence, turns thought to the Christ and gives us courage beyond our own will.
I needed the radical change that Christian Science brought to how I approached mental health.
For years I had been absorbing negative statements about me rather than rebuffing them.
. . . Comes with its calm the
thought that Thou art o’er us;
Then we grow quiet, folded
in Thy peace.
(Hymn. 57:2 Comes)
thought that Thou art o’er us;
Then we grow quiet, folded
in Thy peace.
(Hymn. 57:2 Comes)
Completely overwhelmed, I remember offering up one brief prayer: “Father, I need help.” I just stood there and waited, ready to humbly follow God’s guidance.
It was a little intimidating, because I haven’t been through an experience like that myself, so at first I wasn’t sure what to say or do. But I also felt like this was the moment God had prepared me for.
I turned to God, divine Mind, and released the struggle, knowing that it is God who harmoniously governs all function, action, and being.
I got up from my study completely healed of the grief I had been struggling with, as if I had just walked away and left it behind.
In the autumn
of 2021, a sore developed on the top of my foot.
God’s supremacy is described in terms of heavenly armies hundreds of times in Scripture.
