Article March 31, 1951 Issue

THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

LAURA E. LOVETT GUSTUS

You know the roller coasters that are so popular in amusement parks? First you go way up, then way down, and all at a terrific speed. Well, that is how many people act emotionally, especially during their teens and twenties. Emotionalism is occasionally admired, and too often excused, as artistic temperament. Usually, however, such a state of thought is quite uncomfortable both for the one who is on the emotional roller coaster and for the innocent bystanders— the family or friends.

Do you know what is back of it all? It is ignorance of our real, spiritual selfhood, of our relationship to God, and of God's immutable laws. Our need is to learn more about God and man and intelligently to trust Him.

In one of her shorter writings, "No and Yes," Mary Baker Eddy states (p. 26): "Man's individual being must reflect the supreme individual Being, to be His image and likeness; and this individuality never originated in molecule, corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the eternal bonds of Science,—in the immutable harmony of divine law. Man is a celestial; and in the spiritual universe he is forever individual and forever harmonious." We should let this truth, "Man is a celestial," sing in our hearts. Man is not of the earth; he is the child of Spirit, God.

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