Article September 16, 1972 Issue

Are You Conscious of Your Worth?

DORCAS W. STRONG

There is a deep yearning in every human heart to feel a sense of worth. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes that "conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can."^{Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 17;} The truly fulfilling consciousness of worth is not egotism or self-satisfaction. It is the understanding of one's spiritual identity as the beloved child of God, and the feeling that one is making good progress in bringing his real being to light.

Through studying and living Christian Science we glimpse the flawless man of God's creating. We learn that the man described in the first chapter of Genesis, made in God's image and likeness, is the true selfhood of every one of us. As the character of this real man is revealed to us, the realization dawns that this is the truth of our own individual identity. This awakes us to the false concepts of material selfhood that have prevented us from feeling conscious of our worth. Then we are aroused to reject these errors and replace them with the truths of faultless, spiritual individuality.

Self-depreciation, self-condemnation, inferiority feelings, and self-doubt blind us to man's identity as the perfect idea, or image, of Mind, God. In fact, these errors bind us to the belief in discordant, material selfhood.

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