 Posted Tuesday, December 24, 2002 1:04 PM
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Dear C,
Congratulations on your baptism!! I am celebrating by own baptism of 5 years this Christmas week. This time of year is SO much more meaningful now that I truely know Jesus and His love and sacrifice for us. May you all have a blessed Christmas.
In His name,
Susan
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Posted Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:09 PM
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Dear C. What wonderful news. I praise God for what He is doing in your life. I pray that this Christmas season will be especially meaningful to you know that you have come to know the Savior.
Charles.
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Posted Saturday, June 07, 2003 5:35 PM
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Renee! Your forgot "guard me while I sleep." You know, "Father, Mother, God loving me, guard me while I sleep, guide my little feet up to thee." Didn't want you to be misquoted.
I attended a Sufi group a few years ago with a friend and at the end of the meeting 'circle' everyone was asked to recite a prayer. I gave them the Scientific Statement of Being and they thought it was terrific. Isn't that a kick??
Nyoka, the Jungle Girl
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Posted Saturday, June 14, 2003 7:07 PM
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<< The greatest disgust I have for CS is that it makes people feel guilty if they do not receive healing. They have not prayed enough or believed enough so they are at fault. I wonder if there is a lot of mental illness in CS. My 81 year old mother, a 30 year + CS Practioner, is a basket case because she has supressed all negitive feelings and thoughts. She is seathing beneath a thin wall that explodes out easily when she is stressed and then she feels guilty and beats herself up for letting it out. It took me years to allow myself to have negative thoughts or feelings. I no longer suffer from depression and have learned to allow myself to be rightously angry and not to suppress it. CS has kept my mom mentally unhealthy because of this. Is it Mental Malpractice to say what is true? >>
Heavy stuff! My mother died at age 37 of cancer, "treated" by CS (!) so I don't have adult memories of her, but thinking back to my childhood, she certainly did punctuate her incessant cheerfulness as God's Perfect Child with sudden, hideous rages. I suppose she was seething underneath too. But I don't recall her beating herself up about it afterwards... my sense is that to her, it was like an accident... it was Mortal Mind so it never really happened. A few seconds later, it was all gone and no reference was ever made to it. No apologies, no regrets. It is so difficult for a Christian Scientist to repent if they can practice self-deception thoroughly enough to immediately forget all their sins. I really struggle with that myself and I have been a Christian for my entire adult life.
renee said:
<< My grandmother, trying to comfort her said, "Rely on God, He only knows what is good in life. He knows nothing of this." I remember her giving me a look of astonishment, saying, "What good is it to rely on God if He's not even big enough to know what's happening to me?" >>
That's exactly why I needed to put the "god" of Christian Science behind me! He knew nothing about my life and nothing about the misery and suffering of so many people. He just sat in some heaven and ignored us all! I could get pretty mad with an ignorant god like that.
As for the memory work, you know after 30 years I have mostly forgotten the Scientific Statement of Being but it could come back if I thought about it for any length of time. Scary! The hymns, I very occasionally sing to my teenage kids for their amusement or just to tease them. A lot of MBE's poetry is even more senseless than her prose and they think it is so weird it's funny. But I'd like them to have some idea of what CS is like so they can know (1) why their mom is so disturbed and has a lot of dead relatives and one live but insane one who calls at 3 am to download her paranoid fantasies into our life (2) to keep away from new age religions!
Catherine
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