Article August 19, 1972 Issue

Hurt Feelings?

VIRGINIA L. SCOTT

How often people seem insensitive to our feelings! But while at first it may appear that an offense is imposed upon us from an outside source, actually we are capable of protecting ourselves from this type of suffering.

Let's consider the feelings that have allegedly been hurt. Our feelings are what we permit to abide in our conscious thought. We say, "I feel happy," "I feel sad," "I feel fearful," "I feel hopeful" —or even, "I feel awful." What we are actually saying is, "I'm accepting into my consciousness a sense of joy, agony, excitement, terror"—and so on.

Christian Science teaches there is just one Mind—God, ever-present good, the loving Father of us all. Since God is good, He could not send forth evil thoughts. Because, in reality, we are His loved children, we reflect His intelligence, and are endowed with the ability to control our own thinking, to accept into consciousness only what is good and true. We have the divinely bestowed power to reject whatever is untrue or unfair.

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