One
morning one of my co-workers asked if she could buy the copy of the Sentinel that I had left on the kitchen cabinet as usual for her to read during her lunch hour.
How can we be alone when ever-present Love is with us always and everywhere? This understanding lifts us above material conditions and makes us put our trust in God, not in human ties.
Editor's note: "The wise builders will build on the stone at the head of the corner; and so Christian Science, the little leaven hid in three measures of meal,—ethics, medicine, and religion,—is rapidly fermenting, and enlightening the world with the glory of untrammelled truth".
My prayers often did not seem to be answered, and I felt afraid of being lost and losing good. That afternoon I faced that fear. Was I lost? No. Were God and His goodness still here? Of course.
Turning to gambling as a means of gain necessarily involves a turning away from the only provider, the one true substance, God. Looked at frankly, gambling, or chance-taking, is a form of idolatry.
