An experience which I had while working in an office a few years ago brought much unfoldment of good. Because of a condition of lack, it had become necessary for me to go back into the business world. Our young daughter was placed in a nursery, and I was led to take a supervisory position in an office. The criticism and envy which I encountered in those around me presented a gloomy picture. As a result, my own thinking became clouded with selfpity, resentment, pride, condemnation, and other thoughts that were not of God.
Because of the many demands on my time I did not read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly before leaving for work in the mornings, but I studied it during the lunch period. The practitioners to whom I turned at various times during this testing time were most patient and compassionate, but they were firm in impressing upon me the necessity for facing the discord and seeing its unreality, instead of trying to run away from it. I learned that I could not possibly run away from it as long as I believed it to be true; so in order to get rid of it I had to get it out of my thinking.
It was pointed out to me that I was in reality working with spiritual ideas, all having the same Mind. Over and over I was reminded to love divinely, and not to criticize or condemn persons, no matter how personal the error seemed to be. I was told to rejoice in the universal goodness of God, realizing the allness of God, good, and the fact that error cannot possibly be any person's thought, because it does not emanate from the one Mind, which is God.
