Institutional work has taught me the importance of loving myself—seeing myself as God sees me—so that I can freely love others and be available to serve God in the way He points out.
As I thought about my teammates, I had to bring into focus in my thinking God’s consciousness of their identities as His purely spiritual expression. I had to fill my thoughts about them with how they were known in Truth and embraced by Love.
As I thought deeply about these ideas, various neck, shoulder, and back pains I had been feeling up until that moment completely dissolved. I hadn’t even realized that I had been so tense. I was able to sit up taller with ease, as if a weight had been lifted off of me.
Over the next three or four days, the pain in my mouth lessened before disappearing completely. During the event, all I could see was abundant, genuine love expressed among all those attending.