You’re not the exception
For a long time, I thought the inspiring ideas I’d been hearing in Christian Science Sunday School were great, but probably didn’t all apply to me.
Like, I could accept that I expressed God in some ways, but I didn’t think I expressed God in other ways. For example, I’d learned from reading the Bible that we are created in God’s image and that everything He made was very good. It’s a nice idea—and, sure, I felt I was a good person and moderately good at using my talents. But when I looked at myself, I wasn’t convinced that all of God’s qualities—like beauty, grace, and radiance—were really there.
Sometimes, in Christian Science, we talk about spiritual perfection—the spiritual law that because God, Spirit, is perfect, we, as His spiritual reflection, are also perfect. I definitely didn’t think this applied to me. I couldn’t have felt further from perfection if I tried.
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