Guilt and Blame

[C.M.G.]

While reading the lesson this week, this statement from Science and Health stood out to me.
‘Truth, cross-questioning man as to his knowledge of error, finds woman the first to confess her fault. She says, “The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;” as much as to say in meek penitence, womanhood “Neither man nor God shall father my fault.”

I know that I have often questioned the what ifs or whys about what happened, condemning myself and trying to find who or what is at fault for sickness or other discordant conditions. But it is always the Adam-dream that is trying to declare God is not or has not been ever present, all power and omniscient. Condemnation and fault finding are the serpent’s tools to try and keep one from knowing our real identity.

In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy states;
“A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt or a faltering and doubting trust in Truth are unsuitable conditions for healing the sick.”

and from the Blue Book;
‘We, as God’s ideas, are free from, and cannot be touched by the errors of unfavorable comment, disapproval, criticism, fault-finding, censure, blame, condemnation, hate, murder.”

Trying to attach human blame whether to ourselves or others is such a waste of time and effort.

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