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"Anger must come from judgment. Judgment is the weapon I would use against myself, to keep the miracle away from me."
I was contemplating anger recently, while attempting to wrap a thin copper wire full of LED lights on my Christmas stick (as I call a beautiful branch which I use as a table-top tree during the holidays). At one point, I felt like I was caught in a cat’s cradle, a string game which I always found frustrating as a child. In today’s workbook lesson, we are told to ask for our mind to be straightened. Rather than succumb to the irritation I was feeling toward myself for not completing my task in a Martha-Stewart-like fashion, I stopped and examined why this was bothering me. Well, it was because I didn’t want to be doing it! I was using my judgment as a weapon against myself by looking at a list of things I decided needed to be done and then rushing through to accomplish that end. This is definitely NOT in compliance with living in the moment, a way of life which I particularly enjoy, knowing that every detail will be attended to in a timely fashion when I surrender my plans to divine Mind. And so I did! And I’m happy and peaceful now. What a relief!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Material man is made up of involuntary and voluntary error, of a negative right and a positive wrong, the latter calling itself right. Man's spiritual individuality is never wrong."
Science & Health Page 491:7-10
