We are all inclined to place the blame for our problems on someone or something other than ourselves. This is sometimes where it belongs, but even in such instances, Christian Science offers this most comforting thought: the remedy or solution to all our problems can be found as we apply the truth taught by Christian Science to our own thinking. There is no untoward circumstance or condition with which one is confronted that cannot be replaced by a spiritual truth. By changing one's thinking so that it conforms more nearly to the scientific truth of the situation, one helps to bring about this replacement. One's chief work lies within oneself.
Knowledge of this fact gives the student of Christian Science some proper sense of his God-given dominion over his own thinking and thereby over his own experience. We experience only that which we permit to enter our consciousness as real, and nothing else.
Christian Scientists are learning that as they steadfastly refuse to accept a discordant condition as real, and strive to replace any error with the truth of harmonious being, they are able to demonstrate health, happiness, and success in their experience rather than disease, misery, and failure. They thus learn the meaning of Mary Baker Eddy's statement, "Error comes to you for life, and you give it all the life it has" (Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy by Irving C. Tomlinson, p. 85).
