Article February 17, 1951 Issue

WHERE ARE YOU LIVING?

PAUL J. LICHTENFELS

The Psalmist evidently had a clear concept of the true home of each idea of God when he wrote figuratively (Ps. 84:3), "Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God."To have a place of abode providing rest and shelter is the general desire that impels people to seek and maintain a home. When, however, the endeavor to establish and keep it up is based on mere human desire, planning, and effort, the result is often not satisfactory, for material methods are inadequate to provide a true and lasting home.

During the time of acute housing shortage two Christian Scientists discovered that they would soon be compelled to vacate the place in which they were residing. They knew that the conventional human methods for finding a place could prove as futile for them as they had proved for hundreds of other people in every metropolitan area. They felt that the situation should be viewed as an opportunity to demonstrate the true sense of home.

Searchingly they asked themselves the question, "Where are you living?" They resolved not to be anxious about the future and the material habitation that it would bring forth, but to work faithfully every moment to gain a clearer sense of their true home and dwelling place. Christ Jesus stated the fact that God has provided a home for each of His ideas in these words: "In my Father's house are many mansions" (John 14:2). The mansion that each one has in the realm of Mind, God, who is divine Love, is spiritual consciousness. We truly live and are active as we abide in this consciousness, which reveals God as our beloved Father-Mother and ourselves as actually His obedient and blessed children, spiritual, perfect, and complete. It is on the basis of the all-power and all-presence of God and of the perfection of the man and universe of God's creating that human problems are solved in Christian Science. It is on this basis that one's concept of home is spiritualized and true home demonstrated in human experience.

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