Article April 15, 1972 Issue

Not Who but What Is Right

NOLA AUSTIN COOK

Self-pity and confusion filled my thoughts as I sat in the practitioner's office, woefully pouring out the story of my unhappiness and discouragement. I had been vainly attempting to use my newfound understanding of Christian Science in working out a difficult relationship problem; someone appeared unkind and unfair, and it seemed that I was very right and this individual was very wrong. Kindly but firmly the practitioner told me, "It doesn't matter who is right. It is what is right that's important."

That visit to the practitioner's office took place many years ago. The complete solution of the relationship problem required much prayer and spiritual growth, but the statement given me became a central theme in my prayers ever after. I have never forgotten its tremendous import.

As spiritual healings have taken place in my experience, as progress and fulfillment have replaced discouragement and frustration, and joy and purpose have replaced unhappiness and discontent, it has often been necessary for me to hold to the fact that who is right is much less important than the spiritual fact that divine Principle and Truth are always right.

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