Complaining, if we have a habit of doing it, can be the easiest thing in the world. From grumbling about our bank’s poor service, to inefficient city government, to a co-worker’s slowness. But if complaining is too often our fall-back position in the face of difficulty, we might consider how “correcting” can make a world of difference.
A spiritual understanding of the Bible shows that nothing in God’s universe really needs correcting. In fact, the first chapter of the first Bible book, Genesis, repeats several times that God saw what He created as good, indeed as “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Logically then, that which needs correcting is nothing God has done, but is rather human thought and perception.
Along these lines, Mary Baker Eddy, in her main work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, wrote: “Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it” (p. 2). Several points in Science and Health indicate that we see the perfection of God and of His creation by looking beyond what the physical senses show (whether a troubled relationship with a spouse or a faltering economy) and by grounding our experience in what spiritual sense is communicating.
