With stillness, patience, and presence, I am not missing anything. I am meeting new insights that arrive on the wings of inspiration. I experience fresh hope, and welcome with an open heart the healing ideas that bring mental and physical transformation.
It may seem that technology, which is so often helpful in improving our lives but can also be used for criminal and hurtful purposes, far outstrips Jesus’ methods. But, in fact, the truth that Jesus preached and practiced is still fully effective in this age.
Every time the fear arose that I would not regain full mobility, I challenged that suggestion until I had annihilated it, replacing it with a calm trust in God’s omnipotent ability to maintain my activity and freedom.
Out of despair, I had challenged my view of what I thought God could do. A truly tough trial resulted in a higher understanding of God’s unchanging love for me and the restoration and exaltation of all the good I thought I’d lost.
The reason that God doesn’t step into a physical world and fix things is that it’s not needed. Christian Science teaches that God and God’s manifestation—including each of us—are the entirety of existence. Everything real and good is already present and intact.
The only view that is genuine and worthy is God’s view. We can identify God’s view and thoughts by what they communicate to us and by how they make us feel. Divine thoughts communicate our and everyone’s oneness with God, good.
As I let my understanding be upheld by divine Love, the answer came: I was not the one who was responsible; God was. Immediately I relaxed. I waited, trusted, “floated.”
I had been trying to “apply” spiritual truths to improve whatever needed improving. What I truly needed was to accept (really accept) the Bible’s revelation that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of God, Spirit—and that everyone’s real individuality is entirely spiritual.
