What am I trusting?

It’s good to often ask ourselves: “What am I trusting in today?” Sometimes our trust in a supposed human nature—belonging to ourselves or others—is so engrained in thought, we don’t even question it or realize we have a choice in how to think about it. For instance, at the grocery store today, the grocery bagger, as the cashier noted, was “on a tear”, and not in a good way. It occurred to me that I had a choice of whether or not to trust this bit of information. I could just accept it as the material evidence seemed to prove, like the railroad tracks that appear to converge in the photo. Or, I could look deeper into the spiritual facts, beyond sense evidence.

Here is an intriguing statement from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
"To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear, — this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true."
At the grocery store, I replaced the thought of an excitable, neurotic nature with what I’ve learned to be the nature of every child of God—having only the one all good Mind which is God, that Mind which is calm, at peace, reasonable and untroubled. As Philippians 2:5 describes it: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus”.

To learn more about where to place your trust, you’re invited to our Wednesday testimony meeting tonight. The readings will cover the subject of trust. The meeting is held in person at Brookdale, 60 Nicoll Way, in Glen Ellyn, or at this Zoom link. Those attending will share testimonies of healing, too.