From the Editors May 19, 2014 Issue

You are your neighbor

The Editors

A friend describes a cartoon she saw: A robber, holding up a bank, passes an empty pouch across the counter, and instructs the teller: “Don’t give me too much. I’m not good with money.”

She laughingly reports that this reminded her so much of herself that she had it taped to her office wall for years.

We can all probably relate to some aspect of it’s-so-me thinking—saying “guilty” to human frailties (large and small) that we’ve become so familiar with that they feel like part of us. But Christian Science identifies us in an entirely different way. Not divided into “two”—a spiritual self and that other one that “has all the issues”—but in Mary Baker Eddy’s words, as “an active portion of one stupendous whole” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165).

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