The Bible Speaks to You March 23, 1963 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the weekend of March 15–17 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You," heard internationally over more than 800 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 50 - The Answer to a Bad Disposition

HOST: Take a bad disposition; the person who has one would probably give a million dollars to get rid of it. And those around him would probably be glad to raise the money! I don't suppose anything mars the joy and beauty of life so much as the traits of character that make up a bad disposition. Marriages and businesses have failed because of stubbornness, temper, deceitfulness, procrastination, moodiness.

One aspect of a bad disposition is that it's often expressed in annoying habits of one kind or another. By way of justification people often protest that that's just the way they are, and they feel they can't do anything about it.

But an article in Cosmopolitan magazine brought out some arresting thoughts on this subject. The author, John Keating, spoke of habits as "standardized ways of responding to a situation." He said a habit is a "stand-in for a more basic problem." He described such types of behavior as "techniques, physical, mental, or emotional, which we have either stumbled on or learned through trial and error as a means of handling a problem."

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