Windowpanes for Truth

[Written Especially for Children]

ELOISE L. PATTILLO

Suppose that you should walk into a room and find two windows, one with a bright, clean pane, and the other all covered with dust and cobwebs. Through which one would the sun shine most brightly? Why, you would say, through the clean one, of course.

A good housekeeper does not allow her windowpanes to become dirty. We are all housekeepers, and the windowpane that each of us must keep clean is our thinking, our consciousness. Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 295), "The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane," and she also states that the mortal mind that has lost much error becomes "a better transparency for Truth."

Christian Science shows us that some of the lies of mortal mind that would darken our mental windowpanes are temper, impatience, disobedience, fear, envy, pride, self-will, ingratitude. In other words, when we feel angry or afraid, when we envy something that another has, want our own way, feel puffed up instead of giving God the glory, believe that we don't love somebody or that somebody doesn't love us, or forget to give thanks for the good that comes to us—we are letting mortal mind darken our windowpanes.

But when we remember that we are ideas of divine Mind we can keep our thinking pure, free, happy, and loving. Then we can always say "No!" to error and learn to see ourselves and others just as God sees us—as His perfect, well, holy, and loving children.

Was all that dirt on the windowpane really a part of the windowpane? No, indeed! Neither are any wrong thoughts or habits ever a part of us. We should always remember and prove that. How happy it makes us to know that we don't belong to error, and that error doesn't belong to us, because God's child can express only good! "Ye are of God, little children," the Apostle John wrote.

The sunlight of Truth is always right here, ready to shine in our thoughts. Let us remember, then, always to keep them so clear and pure that the health, joy, love, and harmony of God can shine through and bless us and others!

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