Let’s make a powerful noise together

2901-preview-tu13og9wkw4cgswcThursday night, I attended the live presentation of Sheila C. Johnson’s “A Powerful Noise” with my 12 year old daughter. I wanted her to have a larger sense of the world and what individuals can accomplish. The film follows three women from very different countries and backgrounds on three very different missions that have a common goal: the education and empowerment of women and girls.

The film was moving, and the discussion group that followed very interesting, but as we left the theater, I could tell my daughter was struggling. I asked her what she thought of all that she had seen. She said she wasn’t sure how she felt other than very tired. So I told her what I was thinking about it all.

These women have lived incredibly difficult lives. One lost her daughter and husband to AIDS. Another struggles to educate young women who have no skills and no hope without her. And another works to bring warring ethnic groups into business and school together. They are brilliant and powerful women, and all I could think during the film was, “What if they all were doing what they do but were Christian Scientists? What if the woman trying to educate people about HIV/AIDS could share that both the disease and the behavior that leads to it could be healed? What if the young women learning a trade and enough literacy to write their own names and find a street address understood that their intelligence had an infinite source, that they could stand up for their rights because infinite Love would support them and keep them safe? What if one infinite Father/Mother God became the center of the lives of the warring ethnic groups? What then?”

Christian Science offers an explanation of God unlike any other, where pure and perfect divine Love is the creator and principle of the universe. If Love is a principle, like mathematics, then it is an unbreakable law that exists and operates even when misused, misunderstood, or even unknown. So, just like when we learn to do different levels of math we can accomplish more and more, if we learn how Love operates, how to take part in its rule and order, we begin to see examples of what the Bible says in Romans, “… all things work together for good to them that love God ..,” or all things work together for good to them that love Love.

My daughter and I talked all the way home, even sitting in the driveway for a while. We both came to the conclusion that if we work to accomplish good using what we are learning in Christian Science, our power to effect change is increased exponentially. The more people we tell about God as infinite Love, the more people will be able to put that knowledge to work in their own lives and the lives of others. The more we work to understand Christian Science and to heal the ills of others, the more people will know that God, infinite divine Love, is real, and all is truly good.

We got out of the car no longer struggling with the hardships we had seen, no longer exhausted by the giant project that seemed to need completing. Walking into the house, we were alive, alert, and energized as we realized that one person can make a huge difference in the lives of others, that the healing power of the Christ as taught in Christian Science is the necessary ingredient in any effort for good.

Think about it! What would begin to happen if you talked to just one person a month about what you know to be true about Love? This site has over 3000 members. If each one of us made the commitment to share what we know with just one person, just this month, thousands of people would be given the knowledge that they are not alone, ever, and that the infinite power of the universe, that is Love itself, made them and will never, ever leave them or forget them.

Now that would be a powerful noise!

by Dawn-Marie Cornett