Article August 12, 1972 Issue

A High School Student Writes

Snow and Sun

LINDA SUSAN KONETCHY

An unusually heavy snow in mid-April had completely covered some newly blossomed flowers. It seemed only natural that the flowers would die. But the snow melted, and the flowers stood strong, expressing God-derived beauty and freshness. This reminded me of how God is protecting each of His ideas, "from the least of them unto the greatest of them." Jer. 31:34;

Is it ever possible for an idea of God to be affected by heat or cold? No. A spiritual idea lives in the divine atmosphere. Heat and cold are only effects of material belief. If we could see this clearly enough, neither plants nor people would be adversely affected by the elements.

The effects of temperature do not come from divine Love. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says that "matter has no sensation of its own, and the human mind is all that can produce pain." Science and Health, p. 166; When the effects of temperature present themselves on the body, aren't the effects products of mortal mind, of wrong thinking? Since the physical body has no power to think, and since the divine Mind produces only good, then mortal mind must be the only culprit in any bad effects that result. Imperfect thoughts manifest themselves in an imperfect body.

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