I was standing at the bus stop, waiting for my bus. The scene was depressing. A woman on her phone was using foul language. A man with grungy clothes was scratching a lottery ticket. Another man was pacing sporadically, talking to himself. I just wanted to get home.
But then I began to think about a quote from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It reads, “The way through which immortality and life are learned is not ecclesiastical but Christian, not human but divine, not physical but metaphysical, not material but scientifically spiritual” (pp. 98–99).
As I thought about “not human but divine,” I realized that the foul language, the gambling habit that lottery tickets represent, and the mental turmoil I was witnessing, all involved seeing flawed human beliefs about my fellow man. They didn’t represent the divine view—what God sees. This enabled me to reject each one of these false human concepts as having no substance, and to see clearly the divine truth about each person there—a loved and unique spiritual expression of God, made pure and whole in God’s likeness.
