Article December 30, 1939 Issue

One's Right Place

GLADYS C. GIRARD

The spiritualization of daily living is the high goal set before the Christian Scientist. "The spiritual sense of Life and its grand pursuits is of itself a bliss, health-giving and joy-inspiring," states our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 19 of "Miscellaneous Writings."

Often one hears the expression, "I feel that I am not in my right place," or, "If I were in another place everything would be better," and so on. This argument of mortal mind became very aggressive in the experience of one student of Christian Science. Because of a seeming curtailment in business operations, a consolidation took place in the corporation with which her husband was employed. A resulting transfer took the family halfway across the continent into very different climatic, living, and working conditions. Very little harmony was evident. This condition continued for over two years, although a great deal of work in Christian Science was done.

After pondering the situation from every angle, with the aid of the Concordances the student made a deep and conscientious study of our Leader's statements concerning place. Enlightening and uplifting, indeed, was the conviction which finally crystallized as a result of this study. It became clear to her that materiality must yield to spirituality, whatever the picture before mortal mind. Following humbly and obediently this line of light and unfoldment, she put forth a fresh and vigorous effort daily and constantly to spiritualize her thought regarding every situation which presented itself; to lift her consciousness above the material thought of place to spiritual reality. A very decided change soon manifested itself for herself and her family, and very different from anything humanly foreseen. Is not this parting from or forsaking the material for the spiritual alluded to in Jacob's statement, "Surely the Lord is in this place"? God is ever present, as we learn when we let go of a material concept to grasp firmly the spiritual fact.

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