The world today seems awash in a Pandora's box of afflictions. Nevertheless, every inharmony we experience, see, or just hear about--whether it is sin, disease, death, hatred, war, famine, loss, or poverty--exists entirely and exclusively in the only place it can--in the rag-and-bone shop of our own personal and mortal sense of existence. If God, good, is really omnipresent, then there is no hidey-hole for such inharmonies to lurk in, even if there were such a thing as a real inharmony.
Mrs. Eddy makes it a duty for each of us, daily, to rule out of himself all sin. The fact that uprooting sin is a daily duty, not an occasional task like putting a new roof on the house, shows the urgency with which we need to approach overcoming all evil, even the imps we fondly indulge. If you're momentarily at a loss for where to start or go next, try the six "lets" in Science and Health (248: 25-11). Lots of grist for the mill there, and the word let is not as passive as it may seem. The "Student's Reference Dictionary" referred to in previous entries defines let in part as: "Followed by the first person plural, let expresses exhortation or entreaty; as, rise, let us go."
We shouldn't unwisely try to outrun our ability to digest and assimilate new truths, which could lead to discouragement or frustration, but Mrs. Eddy tells us we are all capable of more than we do. So festina lente, if necessary, but now is as good a time as any, if we haven't started already, to shake a leg!
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Another wonderful entry. Great title and substantive content. You have my continuing thanks and support!
I didnt think CS's believed in sin, is this all part of the neo-Christian Science movement?
I just love your blog and have read every last scrap of everything you've said. You don't know how much you are helping me, and I do thank you, dear blogger.
A solid help to me, as usual. More CS's should be doing the deeper thinking you obviously are doing.
Thanks heaps!
Thanks for the specific direction you've given in those "Science and Health" references. You're doing a wonderful job, blogger.
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I do declare, this blogger must be an English professor somewhere. Not the first time I've had to get out the old dictionary to look up some words I've never seen before.
An education!
I, probably among many out here, am so happy you're willing to use your writing ability and take your time to give us uplifting things to ponder.
Good work!
Thanks so much for all you are giving out through your blog. Like this latest, and especially the previous one on supply if we're "fishing for men", that is, serving God. That one really lifted me up!
Love that thought, now is a good time to shake a leg. You are right. There has never been a bigger need for Christian Scientists to be praying for mankind than now. And thank God, Mrs. Eddy has given us all we need to do an effective job at this.
Thanks much,
Very well stated. Really like the way you think about Christian Science issues!
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