Our
Supply
MARGUERITE
DYER PRIESMEYER
The
question of supply looms large today in the thoughts of a
troubled world. In all our experience we have not known so
many demands upon our heartstrings and purse strings. Our
daily expenses must be met; it is not only our duty, but our
desire, to support our Government; and we long to help our
fellow men. But we cannot stop there. The Christian
Scientist knows that only as he meets his obligations to
God, infinite good, in gratitude for benefits received, can
he expect to prosper. Now the willingness to give is
conceded, but how to give, unless we have sufficient means,
is the question. We are fast learning through our study of
Christian Science to turn to divine Love for deliverance
from bodily aches and ills, but we are not always so
wide-awake to the fact that the same power supplies our
daily needs; yet the application of Principle is exactly the
same in both cases. What causes our distress in any
direction? We may say it is lack of health, of strength, of
material possessions, or lack of happiness; but when it is
all summed up, we find that all our dis-ease is caused by
ignorance of God and of His laws — lack of
understanding.
Our
beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us in "Miscellaneous
Writings" (p. 307), "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and
in turn, they give you daily supplies." It should not be
difficult to recognize the power of Mind to supply our
needs, whether they be spiritual or any one of the
legitimate demands of mundane existence, for the promise
given in Malachi is, "Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove
me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that
there shall not be room enough to receive it." As we bring
all our thoughts into Love's storehouse, the consciousness
of Love, to have them examined and corrected, truly the
windows of harmony open to us and flood us with the light of
understanding beyond measure.
"Our Supply"
by
Marguerite Dyer Priesmeyer
Christian Science
Sentinel, October 19, 1918
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