You can stop blaming yourself

Looking to be a better healer? Then you’ll want to keep an eye out for articles like this one, appearing periodically in the Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science. Their aim: to correct some of the misconceptions about Christian Science that would keep us from having the results we so desire.

Years ago, the day before a weekend trip with a friend, I’d hurt my foot and couldn’t walk on it. Because I’d been weighing the pros and cons of a job offer, I felt my indecisiveness had contributed to the mishap. 

Now, maybe that sounds strange, but as a student of Christian Science, I understood that thought affects the body. However, I’d missed the vital point that it’s God’s perfect thoughts—not human, imperfect ones—that govern one’s experience. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science, assures us that we can trust those divine inspirations to guide us: “In Christian Science, man can do no harm, for scientific thoughts are true thoughts, passing from God to man” (pp. 103–104).