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Minding Our Own Business

From the March 1976 issue of The Christian Science Journal


When a fellow member of my church told me that I was attending to the business of others and not minding my own business, I was surprised and chagrined. Silently I denied the accusation and in self-justification told myself that everything I did was for the good of the church, even those duties others had failed to do.

My fellow member's statement, however, was not to be so easily and so quickly dismissed. As a student of Christian Science, I knew there was something more for me to learn, and that I would find the lesson somewhere in Jesus' words and works.

I recalled that Peter, near the end of Jesus' stay on earth, was inquisitive concerning the future of a fellow disciple and asked, "Lord, and what shall this man do?" Jesus responded, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me."John 21:21, 22;

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