Article September 30, 1944 Issue

Spontaneity

MARGARET WEYMOUTH JACKSON

One of the most engaging qualities of childhood is its spontaneity. The little child responds to every light and motion, is buoyant, eager, quick, alert, full of joy and activity. But it is the generally accepted belief of mankind that spontaneity diminishes with advancing years, until with age it disappears, and man expresses, at best, a dutiful, labored, even mechanistic routine of thought and action. With the passing of time, mortal man believes, come repression, dullness, undue conservatism.

To the student of Christian Science, this belief presents a real challenge. Since God is Life, all activity, all buoyancy, light, and motion, must come from God. To be continuous, spontaneity must be seen to stem from God. This being so, nothing can interrupt the spontaneous expression of good, of spirituality, of hope and gaiety which belong to the true, spiritual man. Nothing dull or automatic is characteristic of God's man, and there is no other.

Knowing these facts, the Christian Scientist does not depend on mortal mind or on his own belief of human personality for spontaneity. He understands that he is the uninterrupted, continuous, perfect expression of Mind, and that, as such, his every thought and action derives from God, who, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 465), "is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." Since the student learns in Christian Science that God and man coexist, he knows that nothing can dim the spontaneity of his own happiness and well-being, his own expression of divine Mind.

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