If there are any people in your life giving you grief, acting hard to get along with, or difficult to understand, it’s an opportunity to see past the mortal façade they are presenting to their identity in the likeness of God.

Mary Baker Eddy tells us, “Man’s genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is good and true” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 294).  Only what is “good and true” with God, is true for anyone, including yourself.

Anger, stubbornness, blind-will, mindlessness, selfishness, dishonesty, and their kin, are not the realities of God’s man.  They are lies about God’s man, and they have no staying power.  They are destined to be dissolved and replaced with the truth about God’s man.  

God’s child is compassionate, cooperative with right, thoughtful, unselfish, and honest.  These spiritual qualities are present in every child of God.  To a material sense they may appear hidden.  But to spiritual sense, they surface and make an appearance.  Look for them!  You’ll see them quicker.