I would like to express my deep gratitude for these meetings and for the dedicated work being done in Boston to support all of our prayers and activity in the field. As usual I was very inspired by the readings and sharing last week.
As I continued studying the weekly Bible lesson on Soul after the live online broadcast (we listen live at 9am here in Hawaii), I felt buoyed up in my search for truth. The lesson included the citation from page 307 in S&H reading, “Man was not created from a material basis, nor
bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind.” I thought of the word ‘province” that Mary Baker Eddy used in saying that our province is in spiritual statutes. I had always assumed that she meant the word as the dictionary defines, “sphere or field of activity or authority.” But this week I thought of province as a geographic area and understood that if an unjust law was passed in some country across the globe that I wouldn't worry. It was not MY province. Say for example the law said that all people over 5’6” had to pay a extra $1000 tax. Even though I am 5’11” tall I would not worry about that law because I don’t live in that province. The same goes for material laws such as illness or decrepitude. I live in the province of divine Mind, God and need not worry about material laws.
I would like to share a small healing that illustrates this (although I have been reminded recently that there are no small healings.) This summer my family had the joyous opportunity to attend the Annual Meeting of the Mother Church in Boston. At the Sunday church service I got a tickle in my ear made me cough uncontrollable. I felt the prayerful support of others in the congregation as I tried to suppress the cough. With tears running down my face I prayed to understand my God governed being. Suddenly I knew that my existence was purely spiritual. It was as if I was transported. I sat there with tears on my face and the tickle in my throat but I knew that I didn’t live in matter, and matter didn’t govern me. My province was very literally spiritual. I watched from a spiritual vantage as the need to cough and the struggle to control matter vanished.
My gratitude for Christian Science overflow
