It’d been almost six months since our last phone call. Because we’re sisters, this was quite a departure from our normal, monthly hour-long calls. Our last call had been unpleasant and hurtful on both sides.
This day, I’d just come home from the grocery store when my husband told me my sister had called and I should call her back. Only intermittently had I prayed about the situation during the past months, but I was still holding on to feeling wronged by comments she’d made. I must admit I didn’t want to call my sister because I feared I might slip and try to justify my position yet again. A passage by Mary Baker Eddy came to my thought: “. . . let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—
. . .” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 242). There it was: Worthless self-justification was adamantly preventing me from expressing love!
I knew I had to call my sister, but not until I resolved my issue once and for all with the solvent of Love. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me. I told her I also felt wronged when I learned I’d been left out of a small family activity. The practitioner asked if I would have wanted to attend the function. When I said no, we both laughed. The practitioner agreed to pray for me.
