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Reply To: Demoralization

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March 17, 2016 at 10:20 am #815

JPalmer

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We ended up having a full testimony meeting, but it didn’t feel right to leave this unsaid:

My whole life, I have been prone to feeling easily discouraged and to never feeling like I know if I am making right decisions. I see now that I was raised to seek the end result without having a clue what the process was that actually creates it. To know that God is the source of all, and that He supplies me each day with the means to achieve His purpose is a wonderful revelation to me. I was always discouraged because I didn’t go to God for everything, and perpetually demoralized because I had no idea how to even understand what constituted a good result.

This church has taught me that good results only come from obedience to God, because only God knows what the result should be in the first place! Christian Science is teaching me that we cannot expect the result to be good — in other words, from God – if the recipe we are following is all wrong. I need to live this.

I am so grateful for this church, these lessons, for Christian Science, for practitioner support, and for God giving me a place and purpose at all times. What a blessing this is, that even a single word in a lesson can bring so much healing! Thank you!