On the surface that sends out a bit of hope, after all there are 26 letters in the alphabet. BUT how does one react when ‘plan A’ doesn’t work? By ‘plan B’s’ failure we’re pretty low and IF we go to a ‘plan C’ we are almost at the point of mental meltdown. As small children trying to learn how to tie their shoes frustration kicks in, whining begins, crying is almost certain, futility, resentment, disgust, anger, etc., etc., etc. As the small child who needs their parent to come in and save the day, to show the child the right way, we too need a higher source of understanding. This source is Divine. This source is Perfect. This source is Love.
It is said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”1
We try so hard to do things our way. We think it is the ‘easy way’, the ‘right way’. But our personal agenda and opinions get in the way of the Perfect Way. When will we realize that we are here for a higher purpose, a Divine Purpose? When will we see that we are put into a place that God created, knows, sustains, maintains, and brings forth? When will we let go of a personal sense of things? When will we realize that our knowledge is crucially lacking in the understanding of the Divine ultimate of Being, a view from His Higher Understanding, His Idea? When will we let go and be what He created, wonderful, beloved, good, obedient, precious, willing, humble, giving, kind, considerate, thoughtful, loving?
How many “plan A’s or B’s or even Z’s” do we need to make us realize that we do not have nor understand the full picture?
“The "Alpha and Omega" of Christian Science voices this question: Where do we hold intelligence to be? Is it in both evil and good, in matter as well as Spirit? If so, we are literally and practically denying that God, good, is supreme, all power and presence, and are turning away from the only living and true God, to "lords many and gods many." Where art thou, O mortal! who turnest away from the divine source of being, — calling on matter to work out the problem of Mind, to aid in understanding and securing the sweet harmonies of Spirit that relate to the universe, including man? Paul asked: "What communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?"2
How long must we keep trying and finding the end result that we create is unsatisfying, unsuccessful, a waste of time, futile? Sometimes exciting and then devastating in the realization that what we thought was attained was unattainable? When will we realize that there is a divine Parent and that Parent is All-knowing, All-wise, All-good, and has the perfect Plan, a plan of Divine Success?
“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.”3
Do we want “Peace”? Then we must turn to the God of Peace and His ways. We have to stop trying to do it the ‘easy way’ and turn to the All-knowing for the RIGHT WAY. This takes practice, just as we had to practice tying our shoes. But it is Oh So worth it.
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1 Revelation 1:8
2 Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy page 333:10-23
3 Isaiah 55:8-12 (my) King James Version of The Holy Bible
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