Watching Point 102

102 — WATCH that you turn every untoward circumstance and experience to your spiritual advantage. Mrs. Eddy instructed her students to declare, when they were attacked by error, “I am the better for this experience; it is doing me good, lifting me higher, and strengthening my understanding.”

Once when she experienced something on her drive that shocked her, she said, “Know that a shock only makes us go higher. Now let us know when mortal mind shocks us, we can use it to go up higher, and so know it cannot catch us there.”