Article October 29, 1955 Issue

GOOD COMMUNICATION

ROY FRED HUDSON

Communication has been defined as the activity of sharing or imparting ideas. Spiritually considered, this sharing is a joyous experience, for ideas flowing from the divine Mind are harmonious, healing, complete, and include the ability to express all perfectly. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 72): "The joy of intercourse becomes the jest of sin, when evil and suffering are communicable. Not personal intercommunion but divine law is the communicator of truth, health, and harmony to earth and humanity."

In order to reflect this communication of divine law and so know the joy of intercourse, there are four essential steps that we can take in preparation: first, we can be convinced of the value of the ideas we express; secondly, we can have a sincere desire to share these ideas with others; thirdly, we can have loving concern for the reception of these ideas by the listener; and fourthly, we can patiently strive and carefully work to put our ideas into an orderly arrangement that will be readily understandable to the hearer.

Ideas which derive from the divine Mind—and in reality there are no other ideas—are spiritual, true, harmonious, inviolable. God gives us these ideas, and we receive them whenever we turn to Him with humility. When we see the validity of these ideas by accepting spiritual evidence and refuse to entertain doubts engendered by mortal mind, we attain a deep, abiding, and unshakable spiritual conviction.

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