Sense Loss Replaced by Finding Completeness in God

Before coming to this church I used to be constantly plagued by beliefs that came in a few forms, such as the belief that I lacked certain necessary traits for a happy life, and the belief that I had things such a money, time, and opportunities taken from me through various circumstances, and both of those beliefs seemingly worked together to reinforce yet another belief that I had wasted my potential. Some of the things I felt I lacked were direction, ambition, and intelligence. Some of the things I felt had been taken from me were the opportunities to have my own home, and to have a lasting and happy marriage, and also the ability to have my kids live with me full time. All these things bothered me for quite some time, but when I came to this church and started working with a practitioner here, I began learning that all of these things I felt I lacked were actually just me looking at my life from the wrong perspective.

I learned in Christian Science that direction, ambition, and intelligence are all in fact given to us by God, and trying to have them come from anywhere else will inevitably bring nothing good. I also learned that the qualities I thought I would find in a happy marriage are actually qualities that come from knowing my own completeness in God. It turned out to be a huge mistake trying to find those qualities in another person, and ended up leading me through a lot of rocky times. And on top of that, despite not living full time with my children when they were younger, God opened the way for us to have enough meaningful experiences that it is clear we ultimately missed out on nothing.

Because of all these healings I have had here, which were brought about through Christian Science and those years of practitioner support, I have not only been able to see how all those old beliefs were actually baseless lies, but I have also now learned that anytime we feel we lack something or that we have had something taken away from us, it is because we are looking at the whole situation from the erroneous standpoint which says there is a power opposed to God. Once I learned how to see Life correctly, I realized that all of our potential remains infinite, because God is infinite. What a great and constant blessing it is that God gave Christian Science to mankind, and so wonderful that we have the daily support of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the early workers.