“Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.” Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 248

This citation has been given to me by my practitioner to work with and has been mentioned during Roundtables. I took time to work with it this week and particularly the word justice. Webster’s 1828 dictionary defines justice as “fair, impartial, right action, conformity to God’s law.” While looking up words I saw an article about holding onto grudges – perceived injustices from the past. It was so clear how this thinking blocks all the qualities in the above citation by choosing to identify with being “a person who was wronged, wounded and stuck in justifying one’s anger” which would appear to cut you off from God. There is no such thing just as a little grudge. No place or time for this toxic thinking. The above qualities, “unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love” would fill our time and thoughts with “the kingdom of heaven” thereby casting out and washing away any false sense replacing it with God’s universe and creation.
What a blessing to have this practical Science to lift us out of a wrong sense of ourselves and others into purer love, thoughts and actions.