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December 14, 2017 at 12:44 pm #5556

JPalmer

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Thank you for this post!

Since the lesson for December 3rd, 2017, and the Roundtable from that week, I’ve been thinking of how God “can only be reflected, not transmitted.” (S&H, p. 517) This means, as discussed then, His power cannot be stored and redirected as we see fit.

Then I was thinking about how Mrs. Eddy says that “error comes to us for life, and we give it all the life it has.” If we cannot store power from the only power, or life from the only Life, then we are in no position to give error anything. God’s reflection certainly won’t empower error.

So all that can be left to error is the belief it can be given power, or that it has already been given life. Knowing through Science the impossibility of either of these things, there is no reason to even allow that delusion a toehold. I am very grateful that Christian Science is showing me how to put wrong thinking and living behind me. Thank you!