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March 3, 2017 at 1:52 pm #3711

Susanne

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Thank you for this post, which brings it right around again to Mrs. Eddy’s statement “Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help.” There is the idea out there that telling lies can somehow be gainfully manipulative to get things to go one’s way. Phooey to that! And yet this is a common, everyday occurrence of being in the wrong mind, consumed by material thinking. It may work for a while, but it always catches up with you (“…there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed”-Matt. 10). Been there, done that!

I am now daily encouraged by “Honesty is spiritual power.” Somehow I missed that statement until recently, and it’s probably because I wasn’t exactly living totally honestly with myself, God or my Science, before coming to Plainfield.

Now it’s become a linchpin of my daily existence, and when I share this statement with others, always quoting Mary Baker Eddy, people are immediately touched by this truth. Because it takes courage to stand up for the truth, to listen to that small voice that says, speak up! “Honesty is spiritual power…” is an encouragement to do the right thing, and who in their right mind would want to forfeit divine help?