Article January 24, 1953 Issue

OUR REAL PLACE

VELVA PICKETT BROUGH

Everyone desires a happy, harmonious environment in which to carry out his daily duties. Many of us have a very definite concept of place and of the surroundings we desire. This often creates incessant longing or fruitless searching for that which we think we should have, and have not.

Paul said (Phil. 4:11), "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Can we say this with conviction, or do we think some change must be made in order to bring about a harmonious experience? Material thinking limits itself in every direction, and reason based on material premises is never capable of knowing the right place. God's infinity constitutes the only true environment, and infinite good is not localized, for there is no here or there in God's universe. There is but one place for man—the place where God is, where the harmony and activity of divine Mind are expressed.

On page 471 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says, "Man is, and forever has been, God's reflection." Man reflects spiritual qualities, such as completeness, integrity, love, satisfaction. He is a spiritual idea, dwelling in the realm of Mind and experiencing only what God knows. In God's perfect creation there are no misplacements.

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