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February 19, 2016 at 11:44 am #579

JPalmer

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I was certainly afflicted with wrong thinking and overthinking before coming here, and it ran me right into the ground. In Plainfield, I have learned that Christian Science brings a peaceful thought, which leaves me more able to hear God’s voice. As an aside, a lot of that peacefulness seems to have come from simplifying my many loyalties down to just being loyal to God.

Something I found a while ago that has helped me is this (from Association Address by Bicknell Young, page 20 of the 1936 address):

“Looking for something esoteric, or mystical, or hidden, is not Christian Science. Anything hidden or mystical is error, or unreality. The temptation to become complicated in thought and explanation, if yielded to, obscures Christian Science and prolongs or perhaps prevents demonstration.

Christian Science is intellectual in the highest sense, but that sense is Love, and lacking the simplicity of interpretation which the demonstration of Love alone can give, Christian Science is not correctly explained.”

It’s a good reminder to me that we are not in a secret club. The is only one creator and one creation, and thus nothing good and real is secret or obscure. Truth, Love, Life, and the right thinking of Mind are for all!

What a wonderful realization this was, and is, to me. Thank you!