Watching Point 419

419 — WATCH lest you accept mortal mind’s picture of you as a mouse struggling to escape from the cat of mortal belief; just as you think you gain a little freedom — a little hope that you may be escaping — down come the sharp claws with a little added malice.

We must realize that we are in the grasp of nothing but good, since mortal belief is but an illusion. We are not trying to escape from an illusion; we are knowing that we are not in it, and never were. Often when we think mortal mind has us in its grasp, it is merely the human heart within us being scourged to bring it in line, since Mrs. Eddy once said, “The human heart requires many scourgings sometimes before it falls in line, but it must come.”