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Find freedom from bad memories
We’ve all had situations in our past that we’d like to forget. They might be things we’ve said or done to another that we regret, things others have done to us that were hurtful, unfair, or embarrassing, or things we’ve witnessed that left a deep scar.
Such memories can be insidious and persistent, and no matter how much we want to forget them, we instead tend to rehash them over and over again—sometimes for decades. We might try to block them from our thinking through willpower, but what we really need to do is heal them so that they no longer have any control over us.
We do have the ability to be freed from such thinking. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, writes, “You must control evil thoughts in the first instance, or they will control you in the second” (p. 234). Accepting and even nurturing demoralizing memories is contrary to the law of God, good. In fact, the belief that we have a mortal past is itself erroneous. God, being immortal Spirit, didn’t make mortality or mortal thoughts, so they could never define God’s creation, which includes each of us. Science and Health also says: “Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make,—hence its unreality” (p. 525).
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