Article September 10, 2012 Issue

A prayer for the economy

Paul Sedan

Economics has often been called “the dismal science,” and a quick scan of newspaper headlines, Internet articles, and TV news certainly reinforces this view.

Lately, though, I’m starting to realize that we don’t have to accept a dismal view of the economy any more than we have to accept a dismal view of our bodies. After all, the economic “body” has just as much to do with human thought as our health does—it’s just that the apparent size of the issue at hand may be different. And in the end, both need to be evangelized; in other words, we need to preach the “good news” to ourselves about the Christ, Truth, that governs all aspects of our lives.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes something that really grabbed my attention as I thought about the economy: “Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies” (p. 162).