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Making tough choices
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
When I was in my late teens, I began to learn something about the real nature of God and man—meaning you and me—as completely spiritual, pure, and good. I was reading and thinking about the ideas in a book called Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. I was also going to Sunday School at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. In our class, we discussed how to pray about relationships, world issues, and making right choices.
One summer while I was still in college, I had to make a decision that was difficult for me. I had started working at a restaurant as a waitress and was really excited about making some money for the next school year. The problem was that I was serving drinks. Maybe it seems like no big deal, but several years earlier I had made the decision to stop drinking.
I had begun drinking in my teens because I was uncomfortable socially, and drinking gave me the illusion of feeling more at ease and fitting in with others. But I always felt like a fake the next day. As I continued learning that joy, satisfaction, and confidence are natural God-bestowed qualities that everyone has, the drinking became less compelling. The decision to stop drinking was natural and inevitable as I learned more about my spiritual nature as complete and perfect.
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