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Sharing today from Johannesburg, South Africa, is Michelle Douglas.

Her lift is titled The Affluence of Divine Love.

During Johannesburg's ongoing water crisis, our home faced a familiar challenge. Living at the top of an incline, we are often the first to lose water when municipal supply fails. After eight days without water, in the middle of a heat wave, our backup supply water tank was empty, and I had little means to purchase water, a very expensive option, which many folk are

forced to rely on. What shifted for me was not the circumstances, it was my thinking about them.

I had been approaching the problem as though supply

was something that could be contained or limited. Yet, as I turned to what I have studied in

Christian science, I understood more clearly that supply understood spiritually is not a material

commodity subject to infrastructure failures, it is a quality

of divine love which is always present. Love is a biblical name for God. Mary Baker-Eddy,

the discoverer and founder of Christian science, writes in science and health with key to the scriptures that love

fills all space. Eddie says elsewhere that the infinitude of love is enough. How could love

filling all space be enough and lacking at the same time. It's not possible.

The work then was not to petition God to send something which was missing,

but to refuse to accept absence as the truth of the situation.

As I held to this, I stopped arguing with the appearance of lack

and began recognising the fullness of love that was already present.

Hagar, Abraham's wife Sarah's handmaiden,

found herself alone in the wilderness with her son and out of water.

They were ready to die.

As she prayed, God opened her eyes to a well of water already there.

I could expect to see this fullness in my experience too, in whatever form was right for me.

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