Editorial June 24, 1972 Issue

Finding Our Right Place

Alan A. Aylwin

Through earnest communion with God, the all-knowing Mind, each of us can be guided to his right place—to a harmonious sense of home, employment, companionship.

Mrs. Eddy writes, "Each individual must fill his own niche in time and eternity." Retrospection and Introspection, p. 70; To find our niche in human experience, we first need to understand something of the spiritual sense of place as taught in Christian Science. In the realm of infinite Spirit, place has no material connotation. It is not a geographical location but a state of boundless spiritual consciousness. The only place the real man can occupy is the All-presence of God Himself. We are led to our right human place in the degree that this fact is understood and prayerfully applied to the human situation.

Little by little, students of Christian Science are learning that the whole of material existence is the subjective state of human thought. Therefore what seem to be material environment and circumstances are really pictured thought. They can be controlled and adjusted as thought is uplifted and strengthened by spiritual truth. As we recognize the limitlessness of our spiritual dwelling place and know that we are in it now—and then cling persistently to this infinite idea—thought expands and expresses itself in a broader, more satisfying human sense of place. Mrs. Eddy states it clearly: "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." Science and Health, p. 258;

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