We have the tools—including the knowledge that God truly is omnipotent—to disassemble the mental forces that propagate and sustain war, pandemics, and other collective woes.
Each one of us is tenderly governed by spiritual law. Under this law, there is no evil source or influence—nothing that can wrongly divert any individual’s real purpose to bless.
If we are confronted by a shortage of something that is needed, we can prayerfully rebuke any limited, material picture with the spiritual fact that the divine law of Love includes the provision of good in every situation.
When the circumstances of the pandemic pulled her into a dark hole of restlessness and anxiety, this teen thought she could just ride out the misery until life went back to normal. But when that didn’t work, she found an even better answer in Christian Science.
I felt that the natural migration of the fragment from my heel to a point of emergence near my ankle reflected the impetus of the Christ, which had animated my prayers all spring.
I continued to turn away from focusing on the injury, claiming instead my perfect, God-given spiritual identity and abilities, which I knew had never been touched by injury or accident.