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Divine Love’s flow

If we’re feeling irrevocably stuck on our path to progress, we can open our hearts to God’s powerful goodness, which leads us forward.

  • By Elizabeth Mata

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Brick-walled by some impossible
digging in its heels, or swept away by
runaway emotion with no off-ramp, this
inertia thing – halted steps or aimless
over-action that hinders progress
– can feel downright irreversible.

Prayerful hearts, ready to empty human
will, wait in stillness, receptive to God’s
ceaseless, gentle stirring – the current of
pure, timely, divine good, the “unbroken
motion of the law of divine Love.” *

This omnipotent law moves us to
live willingly the healing truth of the
unalterable, perfect unity of God,
Spirit, with His reflection – all of
us – spiritually created to be free.

It pours in on the wayward mental rush
of crimping fear, unchecked anger,
whatever would stall our path onward,
reversing with divine energy all that
wrongly claims to be our true selfhood.

Hope then rises, the path clears, we
go forward in unhindered peace.

*Mary Baker Eddy, “Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,” p. 208

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