October 6, 2025
Is good health bad for your health?
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Good health can be deceptive health if it lulls us into believing that well-being is a material state we’ve earned through material habits, heredity, or good fortune.
I began to have confidence in God’s power to govern my life. I let go of personal control and moved out from the sidelines.
Being alert to minor situations and using them as practice opportunities prepares me for the times when I am tempted to be afraid. Then when something like this comes up, I am and receptive to the spiritual truths that God is sending me.
I had been able to help the groundhog because I had recognized the spiritual qualities it represented, and I could carry this lesson forward in my daily practice.
Could I really choose how I felt about my big pile of homework? I remembered that I was used to listening to God about a lot of other things, and that every time I did, I would get ideas or happier feelings or whatever I needed, and that always turned the situation around.
It came to me to start a spiritual exploration project: I would read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy cover to cover; I would also read the four Gospels in order to learn more from Jesus’ life and his practice of spiritual healing.
My daughter became calm. She returned to her activities, free of pain or any other repercussions.
I saw that true vision comes from a single-minded trust in God and His laws as explained in divine Science. As this trust grows, our whole body will be filled with the radiance of Christ, Truth.
Whatever the circumstance, true safety is to be found in God.
