To help me overcome a condition of impaired eyesight, I had called a practitioner. I felt frustrated because of inability to spend long periods of time studying the Bible Lessons In the Christian Science Quarterly; and reading all the Christian Science periodicals. I was voicing discouragement and impatience.
The practitioner asked me to consider carefully the thought of personal attachment. She pointed out that it may steal into our thinking undetected. Was I not personally attaching to the concept of man —the spiritual identity of each of us—discordant conditions that a loving Father would never impose upon His offspring? Isn't mentally attaching to any person or thing that which God did not create— such as impatience and discouragement— a subtle form of personal attachment? Even to attach one's own personal viewpoint or undue importance to a time, place, circumstance, or event could be classed as personal attachment. Mrs. Eddy states, "Christian Science attaches no physical nature and significance to the Supreme Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do this."Science and Health, p. 117; And in the Manual of The Mother Church: "Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love alone governs man; and a Christian Scientist reflects the sweet amenities of Love, in rebuking sin, in true brotherliness, charitableness, and forgiveness."Man., Art. VIII, Sect. 1;
God is All. There cannot be more than all; so how can we believe that we can personally attach something to this already complete, perfect, whole creation of divine Mind? Since Deity was content with His work, surely we can accept it in its entirety.
