Article March 2, 1935 Issue

Our Right Place

[Written Especially for Young People]

SALLY P. GOODELL

Moments of uncertainty may come to young people of college age when they need to make decisions as to courses, friends, and extracurricular activities; and unless these decision are arrived at by divine guidance, some desirable door may be closed to them. By the understanding which Christian Science gives than man, as the reflection of God, is inevitably in his right place, one can learn to turn a deaf ear to the tantalizing voices of personal ambition and selfishness, and instead receive guidance as foretold in the words of Isaiah, "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left."

Recently the writer had an experience which has been very helpful to her in this connection. She went for a long walk, alone, on a blazed trail in the woods. On the return journey, she came to a point at which she could not find the blaze ahead or the one behind. There were many paths in all directions, but those she followed very soon proved impassable because of fallen trees and other debris. The sun was about to set behind the mountain and she was greatly afraid, but she took hold of a tree to steady herself, for her knees were actually shaking, and declared that, as God's child, she was in her right place, which is spiritual, and set herself to realize this truth thoroughly. As soon as her thoughts were clear, she obeyed an impulse which took her in a different direction from the one she had been following—one that to human reason seemed wrong—and found the blaze which led her home.

As a result of this experience she made a considerable study of the Christian Science literature on the subject of right place. It was more clearly understood that, since man is an idea of God, the one Mind, and Mind is good, man's place is always mental and is always good. In the degree that one is lifting his concept of man and the universe to infinite good, one is finding in that universe the true sense of place, which can never be lost.

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