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"God is the strength in which I trust."
I am reminded of the strength two women utilized in order to commit to paper these teachings we study. To preserve the words for posterity, Mary Baker Eddy spent years writing, revising, editing Science & Health. While Helen Schucman wasn't asking for the revelation presented in A Course in Miracles text, she allowed it to fill her and flow onto paper for the benefit of all. Where does this strength come from which enables people to facilitate such world-wide changes in thought? I know that Mrs. Eddy ascribed full credit to God. She understood that no matter how erudite and learned she had become, (despite no formal education), that there was no way mortal mind could know the divine realities of which she wrote. At least once she stated that she had no idea what Science & Health said, and that's why she read it daily. She said her writing was divinely inspired. Today's vernacular would refer to this experience as being "channeled". I think there's much to be said for the notion that everything is channeled! Loosing the bonds of materialism lets us see in ways we didn't know existed. This freedom allows us to be a perpetual channel for Truth. What a great side effect!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"The revelation of Truth in the understanding came to me gradually and apparently through divine power. When a new spiritual idea is borne to earth, the prophetic Scripture of Isaiah is renewedly fulfilled: 'Unto us a child is born, . . . and his name shall be called Wonderful.'"
Science & Health Page 109:22-27
