Editorial July 8, 1985 Issue

"Help me to lift my thought"

ALLISON W. PHINNEY, JR.

It's not uncommon for a patient to say to a Christian Science practitioner, when asking for treatment, "Help me to lift my thought." That's a good starting point for anyone. But what do we mean by it?

Do we mean that we need to think positively and to hold good thoughts rather than bad? Good, constructive thoughts are certainly more useful than fearing, miserable ones! But lifting thought, as a Christian Scientist understands it, involves something other than mentally entertaining positive human views.

Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, explained there was an utterly crucial distinction between Christian Science and various mental approaches, improved as they might be over some tendencies of the human mind toward gloom and doom.

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