Article December 27, 2010 Issue

A STRICTLY SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE

BY WALTER RODGERS

IN THE NEWS BUSINESS, the New Year traditionally has been a time of making forecasts of things to come. Reporters are called in to headquarters or surveyed by the home office for predictions about what might be ahead in the New Year. More often than not, they are wrong. Thus the time-honored journalist's joke, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story."

But the facts are what remain important for each of us, and when one looks ahead to 2011, it helps to get the facts right. Establishing true thoughts as opposed to those that are ephemeral, spectral, or peripheral, is central and paramount in Christianity, and especially for Christian Scientists.

Didn't Christ Jesus say, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32)? This is a clear call for each of us to consider looking to the future through a strictly spiritual perspective, especially when considering what the coming months may hold. Any other perspective can leave us feeling pretty foolish at times. Unless our predictions have a spiritual basis, we sometimes have to eat our words.