Article October 20, 2014 Issue

Ideas come from Mind

Joan Bernard Bradley

Early in my professional career, I discovered how much I love collaborating with others to find solutions to problems or to develop new ways of doing things. I was often told that I was an “idea person.”

At that time in my life, I believed that individuals were themselves the source of ideas, meaning I thought that I was the source of the ideas I implemented in my work. However, I had a radical transformation of what I believed after I began studying Christian Science.

This change came about as I pondered the spiritual view of creation given in the first chapter of Genesis and explained further in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It became clear to me from this study that God, the all-intelligent divine Mind, is the infinite source of ideas, and that man is Mind’s representative, reflecting and expressing the spiritual ideas that originate in God, the Parent Mind.

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