Editorial January 12, 1974 Issue

Making Life an Art

Carl J. Welz

If we all were conscious of the nature of Soul, we would all be artists. We have available to us, through Christian Science, the information we need in order to work toward a life that expresses Soul. And as we do our work each day—whether we are teaching school, managing a business, dealing individually with clients, planning, building, coordinating, designing, performing, directing, or following directions—our work can be a work of art.

Our Soul is God, divine Love. This Soul is infinite, and it expresses itself in infinite identity, individuality, ability, purity, inspiration, understanding, love. To the degree that we are conscious of ourselves as Soul's idea—which is what the real man is—we are conscious of our own limitless, brilliant, perfect, loving, and loved identity. We approach our tasks with what is humanly called imagination.

As we become divinely motivated, our imaginative approach takes on the color of divine inspiration. The ideas we conceive, the plans we make, the methods we use, the steps we take, the attitudes we express, the concepts we gain, the media we employ, the vision we have as we see ahead, all come from the source of what we think of as our identity. And in proportion to our consciousness of ourselves as ideas of divine Love, we are conscious of the source of true ideas, which is Soul, and we are able to reject as false the source of their counterfeits—mortal, material, personal sense.

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