God’s Plan and Purpose for Me Each Day

I first heard the phrase “Love Out” from the teachings in this church. It means to take thought off oneself and desire to bless others. I learned to ask God after my morning prayers, what His plan and purpose is for me each day.

One morning, I heard “go for a walk” repeated several times. It wasn’t the time for my usual walk, but because I heard it repeatedly, I obeyed.

When I got down our driveway, I saw our “lawn man” bent down pulling some weeds. I felt drawn to go to him. As I approached him I mentally declared, “Hail son of God.” When he stood up I observed that he did not look well; he had a large swelling on his jaw. He told me that he felt the swelling was moving down his throat and it was painful. He also said that if that is what God wanted, then it was alright with him.

I know that he is a very religious man and has strong faith in God. But what he said implying this swelling could be God’s will was NOT right. So, I told him emphatically, that I know God would not allow anything like that. Then he asked me to pray for him.

As I walked away from him, I kept affirming from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, truths about man: The Scientific Statement of Being on page 468; the answer to “What is man?” from page 475, part of which states: “Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas…”; and the definition of man from the Glossary, page 591: “Man. The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind.”

Every time he came to my thought, I prayed with some of these beautiful truths about what we really are.

Two days later, he came by. He was all excited and spent some time talking with me. He said the swelling and pain are all gone, and that he knew he had a prayer friend and expressed his gratitude for my prayerful support.

The way this healing came about shows how important it is to take thought off self each day, to love out by asking God for his direction in how or who we can bless. We must share what we learn, what has changed our lives, in order to bless others, our world, and to glorify God’s name!