God provides

When things go wrong it’s easy to identify with a wrong sense of ourselves—as though we’ve done something wrong and it’s our fault that things are messy. But more and more I am learning not to identify with the material sense of myself and instead turn to God for the God-given freedom that we all have… that it really, really, really doesn’t matter when things seem to go wrong. Things come “to pass” and are not part of Life, which is inexhaustible good. [I looked up “inexhaustible” and it’s a lovely definition of Life! So I am finding that Life is a process of inexhaustible good!]

So, thinking of being fazed by “things” and sometimes going round in circles trying to organise them when they seem to go wrong, I know I have to hold onto the state of Mind that says:

“Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, —is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 306:25)

A little while ago I had a sore growth on my scalp. While out shopping with my son, he noticed it and suggested I go with him to the chemist’s counter to ask and ascertain what he thought it was [I think he had a fear of something]. I said I wanted to treat it through spiritualising my sense of who and what I am as a child of God. But as I had not had a quick healing, and he knew my approach, I complied—saying, “I guess it wouldn’t hurt to know what I was dealing with.” He agreed, and I went along thinking I would then know what to pray about.

However, the chemist didn’t confirm what my son thought it was, and in fact had not seen anything like it. He suggested a biopsy. I told my son I did not want to get entangled with the medical path, as it would lead me into a material way of thinking about myself, which was foreign to my nature.

So every time I washed my hair, I asserted that I—as a spiritual idea, created perfect by God and reflecting His goodness—could not have any element of error as God’s own idea, and that “this truth would remove properly whatever was offensive”. — Mary Baker Eddy

When I fell off my bike very dramatically recently, I was undisturbed because I knew there could be no jarring experiences in the unfolding good of my life. After this, I felt something more elevated, purposeful, and different about myself. Following that experience—being perfectly OK with only minor scrapes—I am sure the lump became smaller. A short time later, it was gone completely.

So this experience leads us to the huge and greater truth of our complete well-being and enables us to feel constantly that “God will provide” all we need to know, to see, and to be! Heaven is right here.