Working with this year’s assignment is proving for me a breakthrough

I wish to report that working with this year’s assignment is proving for me a breakthrough in carrying forward sustained work on a topic and grasping the unfoldment that kind of work brings. The example I can most clearly point to I would not have suspected a couple of years ago would be something I would now be noting and feeling grateful for.

At that time, I felt I had been quickly healed of any sense of grief at the time of my husband’s passing. I felt no pain of separation, no regret, no discouragement, no fear of the future, no depression or sadness or other such phenomena generally associated with the experience. I was working daily about it and having the support of a CS Practitioner. When communicating with family and friends (especially those who were not students of C.S.), I was extremely grateful to be able to refer to having witnessed the wonderful care that my husband received for a few weeks prior to his passing in the skilled care section of a Christian Science nursing facility. Also of course, I was grateful for the support of another C.S. practitioner who worked directly with him. I resumed fairly quickly a “normal” daily pattern. I remember feeling particular support from my work as Second Reader in my branch church with the weekly Bible Lesson. I had completed a little over a year of a standard 3-year term. The digging into each lesson and thereby beginning to see the Science of the Bible’s foundation for what Mrs. Eddy named “Christian Science” was a blessing to me in the work I had been elected to do.

Eventually, however, I awoke to realize I had been unconsciously sucked into ruminating on what seemed to be going on at the time, and was even tempted to look for a “cause” although the medical examiner had recorded something like “natural causes – exact cause unknown” on the required paperwork. Images of mortal mind’s making were surfacing in consciousness. Passages such as “Blot out the images of mortal thought…” (S&H p.390) and “...we must leave the mortal basis of belief in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God’s unerring direction.” (S&H p. 423) came helpfully to my attention.

Since then, one of the lessons I am grasping is that there are not only not two bases of being, but also not two places of being (no here and there) – but one. One realm, one structure of Truth and Love, one kingdom of heaven in which we as His children already dwell together in the harmony of Soul. Focusing on the nowness of man’s status as God’s child (including me and mine and all) began to make a difference in re-claiming the assurances that all is well that I’d felt earlier. Now, however, the scientific basis for such an assurance had been clarified. This seems to me an example of the ever-new sense of the Christ-power guiding and sustaining our consciousness now and forever.

To be at this point seems a vast new field to me, relating to what Mrs. Eddy said about understanding God being the work of eternity (S&H 3) with new vistas, more new light of the Christ, being discerned every step of the way. These assurances are beginning to spill over into other things in my daily experience as well.