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Spirituality heals a difficult work situation
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
A friend of mine was having difficulty with one of her employees. She was actually considering letting the employee go, at least partly because she thought of this person as very difficult and demanding especially in relation to working conditions.
While my friend was telling me about this situation I couldn’t help but think of a statement Mary Baker Eddy made in her book, Unity of Good: “Everything is as real as you make it, and no more so. What you see, hear, feel, is a mode of consciousness, and can have no other reality than the sense you entertain of it” (8:4–8).
With that in mind, I asked my friend if she had tried seeing the employee as God sees her—that is, in spiritual terms—or had she accepted this woman’s behavior as unalterable? I reminded my friend that she could help herself and her employee the most by seeing her through the eyes of divine Love. I felt sure that this change in approach would reveal a solution that would work for both of them.
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Sharon Jeffrey is a Christian Science practitioner in Bentonville, Arkansas, United States.
