Everyone wants to feel loved, appreciated, and understood. But there are many people who for one reason or another feel left out, excluded, and rejected. Sometimes people of differing races and cultures feel rejected by the majority race of whatever nation they belong to. Senior citizens feel the rejection of a largely youth-oriented society. Parents of children labeled by the world as having "special needs" feel their child's rejection when they see the child socially excluded by peers. But personal rights and brotherhood can never be achieved through hatred or rigid demands.
It is through spiritual growth and maturing that we learn to admit to ourselves that the answer lies right on our own doorstep—right within reach of our own thought. And Christian Science shows us a way to heal the deep hurts that we may have experienced. When we can honestly square up to the basic need to go deeper in spiritualizing thought, we are already on the way to healing. We are learning to take a more consistent spiritually-minded approach to people, circumstances, and events.
I stopped feeling concerned over whether I was
understood or not. I knew that God, my source,
my Father-Mother, my beloved friend, loved,
accepted, and understood me. Today, as I look
back on that painful time, I value deeply Love's
demand that I learn this necessary lesson.
