Learning what really motivates me
It was the most intense week of my life. Between Advanced Placement tests, finals, the start of my term as Speech President, and the opening night of our school musical—in which I had a leading role—I was swamped. Then, to top it all off, I started feeling sick. While resting at home, I tried to keep myself from focusing too much on what could go wrong if I didn’t feel better soon.
I decided to call a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me—something I hadn’t done in a while. I had been raised in Christian Science, so I knew that a practitioner was a great person to turn to for spiritual help and healing. When we spoke, she referred me to this statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action” (p. 454).
“That’s funny,” I thought. “I’m always telling others to think about their motivation. How does this help me?”
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