Always required, the higher choice!

With so much concern over current events and circumstances, each day who we are as healers, and how we think and pray is important, even vital. So as I post the following, apologies if it is very direct, but it seems we need to be sure we are not caught up in feeling helpless, or acting or living outside our roles as healers. Please don’t underestimate your role or the effectiveness of the truth you know and have confidence in. And have the trust and patience required to allow healing to be evident.

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The world needs what earnest students of Christian Science are able to do, perhaps more now than ever.  Mrs. Eddy tells us the importance of our contribution when she writes, “Earth’s actors change earth’s scenes;” (Message to The Mother Church, 1902) We have work to do, prayerful work, that finds God that we claim to understand as All, to be All!

So as always, we make choices in how we think, – about  ourselves, another, or our world. A choice based on spiritual discernment would be,   “I will think badly of no one.” However, this requires a commitment and a discipline to be willing to see what is really true according to God rather than according to men.

In terms that Christian Scientists understand, we might say, “I will not practice, or be involved in, malpractice.”

(To me mal means bad, with all that includes, the practice of bad thinking, – about myself, another, or the world. What an interference in our life and work that would be if we allowed our thoughts to dwell there.)

Choosing the higher, prayerful, Christ-consciousness road is our commitment to bring healing to any situation through spiritual understanding. It requires the recognition that harsh emotional judgment, condemnation, hatred, deep seated anger ultimately won’t serve any healing purpose. And moreover, by not guarding our thought carefully,  such thought allows a mental space detrimental to our own health, well-being, peace, and harmony. Then our effectivenss as healers is compromised.

The Discoverer of this essential-to-the-world Christ Science knew the vital nature of a healing consciousness, and the requirement of purity, spiritual clarity and insight, intelligent discernment, in our individual thoughts and in our lives.

Mary Baker Eddy lived and healed through her spiritualized, God-governed, thought and life. Through her life which was led by her love of God, good, she knew protection and progress followed. Faithful lives trust that.

She assures us that it takes courage to do right, acting and living according to our highest ability in our own lives. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, we read, “It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right-doing has any claim to the name. To talk the right and live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one’s self the most harm.” (SH 448)

And,

“The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one’s self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later. Think it ‘easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,’  than for you to benefit yourself by injuring others.” (SH 448)

To my sense, this applies to how we think about others.  Would we wish them ill, even regardless of the wrong they had done, or how we perceive their lives? This is not ours to do, nor is it our highest right. Ours is to have the obedience and humility which knows that God, divine Mind, is governing His creation, currently, (presently,) and permanently.

We are assured, “Mankind will be God-governed in proportion as God’s government becomes apparent, the Golden Rule utilized, and the rights of man and the liberty of conscience held sacred. Meanwhile, they who name the name of Christian Science will assist in the holding of crime in check, will aid the ejection of error, will maintain law and order, and will cheerfully await the end — justice and judgment.” (First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellanyy. 222)

Can’t we see how each of the requirements does not point fingers “out there” somewhere; they are the requirements for our own living: God’s government apparent in my life; the Golden Rule lived right here; my recognition that we each live according to our highest right without judgment from another.

Out love for God, and our very deep trust in God’s ability to govern His children, and His universe in justice and harmony, will lead each of us to spiritually discern how to pray for that which concerns us.

Let’s trust this promise and hold steadfastly to our work. Trust God, cheerfully await the right adjustment, and think and live the healing that is required right in our own daily lives.