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Love provided a home
Many years ago, my two preteen boys and I found ourselves in need of a better home. We lived in a small two-room apartment in a building that needed many repairs. Was this a time of darkness and overwhelming fear and frustration for me? No. In fact, just the opposite! As a student of Christian Science, I’d always found great comfort, joy, and direction from my study of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Even though I didn’t have a high income, my study of those two books brought me a strong sense of assurance that my family’s needs would be met.
I began looking for a new place for us to live. As I daily imbibed the wonderful truths from the Bible and Science and Health, I was inspired and uplifted by passages such as this: “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being;” (Acts 17:27, 28). I shared these ideas with my sons, assuring them that God is always guiding and providing for all our needs.
I also loved Mrs. Eddy’s spiritual interpretation of the 23rd Psalm where she writes, “[DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want. … Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever” (Science and Health, p. 578). At the time, I did not fully understand the concept of dwelling “in the consciousness of Love.” But I did begin to understand that man is made in God’s image and likeness (see Genesis 1:26, 27), and that we live in and are inseparable from God, good. I saw that with God, our supply is always sufficient and that there isn’t a possibility for lack of any kind, as Jesus proved through his example of feeding multitudes with what appeared as only a few loaves of bread and fish. To have my thought fed in this way was a huge blessing in itself.
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