Article September 23, 2024 Issue

Lean on God and look for the blessings

The physical picture and feelings of illness were a missing-the-real-deal view of things. My perfection had been there all along.

Susan Oakes

I have a new daily reminder: Lean and look.

Where did this come from? I had opened the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, to the first page and read these words, which were very familiar to me: “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings” (p. vii). What popped out to me was that word leaning.

I began to consider the reliability of leaning —depending completely—on God with full confidence. The rest of that quote assures us that “to-day is big with blessings.” But I realized that I needed to know how to look for those blessings.

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