Low Self Esteem is Not Part of God’s Man

I am grateful for how Christian Science healings have often felt like a change in perspective to me, and for how those changes in perspective have helped me to let go of flawed and erroneous views of many situations and even of myself, and gain a closer sense of what is happening in Truth. Like it says in I Corinthians 13 : 12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

Certainly the very poor self-esteem I had when I arrived here in Plainfield is a good example. That mistaken way of identifying myself, which was apparently adopted from how other people viewed me, put such a weight of burden on me that, in all honesty, I didn’t even know what to do with it. But working with a practitioner here helped to slowly chip away at that false viewpoint until I was able to put that weight down and be free of it. That was a huge healing for me, and one that only Christian Science was capable of doing. I know that to be true, because I tried many other methods with no success.

But when I think back on it, — despite the difference in how it feels to actually be me now as opposed to then — I can see that God didn’t make a new Jeremy, but rather Christian Science made it possible for me to stop looking at myself with such a negative lens, so that I could start being more the man that God created me to be.

What a blessing that realization is, for many reasons, one being that it helps me to look at other people and more clearly see that there is truly, right this moment, a child of God standing before me. After witnessing Christian Science dispel the illusion around me, it gives me such joy to know that God is just waiting for the opportunity to free all people everywhere. I see now that praying for mankind to be receptive to Christian Science, is also praying that they become receptive to their own healing.