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Staying cool on my wallet hunt
About six months ago I stopped in at a restaurant. As I was getting ready to pay, I reached in my pocket for my wallet. It wasn’t there. I looked around the table where I’d been sitting and didn’t see it but I remembered that I had used it when paying for my bus ride there.
Right away, I turned to God in prayer and recognized that I couldn’t possibly be separated from anything that I needed. God knew where all of His ideas were and nothing could ever be misplaced. Through Christian Science I have learned that God is ever present and all good, so I, as His child, can never be separated from His joy and complete goodness.
I explained to the server what had happened and that I would come back and pay for my meal when I had found my wallet. Even though I didn’t have my bus pass or any money, I felt I should still go on with what I had planned to do that day, which meant going to the Christian Science Reading Room. So I went across the street to the bus stop. As I waited for the bus, I thought about the idea that, as the Bible tells us, “The kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark 1:15). I could never be outside God’s kingdom. My job was to express Christlike joy and to serve God unselfishly. I knew that God certainly hadn’t lost anything essential, and as His image and likeness (see Genesis 1:26), neither had I.
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Brian Lipson lives in Berkeley, California.
