Article August 3, 1974 Issue

Discovering Your Life-style

RONALD BALLARD

What's your style of living? Can you really control how you will live? Is life a search for just the "right" person, place, or circumstance? The current interest in life-style suggests that the previously common view that life should center on the acquisition of objects is being questioned and that more people are seeing living as an art—the art of expressing more noble and less material qualities of thought.

Because living is an art, it—like any art—requires mastery of both theory and practice. But where does one begin to find the theory of life—its laws, rules? Through philosophies, theologies, or sciences? One might consider ontology—searching for and studying the nature and essence of being—and gain a firm conviction that God exists as the divine Principle of being.

Such a conviction was Mary Baker Eddy's. Through a life that stripped her of material hopes, through an inspired experience of healing at a time of great need, through deep search and study of the Bible, Mrs. Eddy arrived at the discovery she termed Christian Science, the "Science of being," the "Science of Life." This Science emphasizes the need to understand the very essence of being. It requires of its learner the mastery of its theory, its fundamentals, its letter, its spirit, and its evidence in the daily round.

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