The belief that someone has treated us unjustly, or wronged us, can cause much unhappiness until we learn in Christian Science to reverse this error with the truth of being and so eliminate hurt feelings from our experience.
We may long to forgive the erring one and love him, but believe it humanly impossible. Christian Science shows us the way to love and forgive even our enemies. This Science is based on the great truth that God is Love and that man is the image of Love. The material senses would refute these eternal truths. However, through the spiritual understanding which the study of Christian Science brings we are able to recognize them, destroy the false concepts, and replace them with the true.
Let us realize, when we feel we are assailed, that it is never man who seems to attack us, but so-called mortal mind, which would tempt us to accept a false concept of man as an agent for or victim of evil. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 8), "Can you see an enemy, except you first formulate this enemy and then look upon the object of your own conception?" And she continues farther on, "Simply count your enemy to be that which defiles, defaces, and dethrones the Christ-image that you should reflect."
