I just heard two headlining stories in which Christian Science was nestled in the backstory: Apparently the recovering Rep. Gifford’s mother is a Christian Scientist and Lionel Logue, the effective speech therapist in The King’s Speech, also had ties to Christian Science.
It made me reflect on the influence of Christian Science thought.
Some time ago, I took a friend to a Christian Science lecture. She was deeply moved. She said, “Kim I don’t know if I could ever be a Christian Scientist, but it gives me such hope to know that there are Christian Scientists.”
What is this hope that Christian Science can inspire? Perhaps it is knowing that there are people operating on the Principle that good is not helpless but is powerful; that the idea of an all-loving God exists, that there are proofs of healing just as in Jesus’ time.
With my friend, it was knowing that God is love and she is the direct expression of that Love. She knows that she always has another way to look at a problem. If all her known methods of healing, of comfort, of supply fail her, she can look into Christian Science. She never need to feel that she is stuck.
This helps me see that my work as a Christian Science practitioner goes much farther than the work and prayer with individual patients. The very act of operating under a law of Love spreads an influence infused with hope.
Love spurs us on to love our neighbor, to persist in healing, to do compassionate works, to help one another. Christian Science operates on the Science of Love (aka the law of Love). Love is that light that “shines before men.”
It also helped me realize that witnessing God as Love and knowing God as omnipotent Love instills a silent hope that impacts thought that is far-reaching -- reaching farther than we may have realized.
The "still, small voice" of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound. The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, "as when a lion roareth." It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear. It arouses the "seven thunders" of evil, and stirs their latent forces to utter the full diapason of secret tones.
- Mary Baker Eddy
1 comment:
Great thoughts, Kim. Thanks for sharing. We should never forget that every day in every way we are setting an example for the world, letting our light shine (the light of Christ). Even when the work we're doing does't seem to be having an impact, it is.
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