Article December 7, 1974 Issue

I Think I've Got It!

Lucile Blackshaw

Louise was told by her classmates that she had a gift for designing and making costumes. It was fun to take a bolt of bright-colored fabric and drape and pin it on a dress form till it looked like a work of art. Then came the cutting and sewing, all the details that meant the difference between mediocrity and perfection.

Louise had never learned to cut out by pattern and had so far just pinned and sewed as she was inspired, leaving experienced sewers to do the rest. It was pleasant to hear all the compliments, and so she promised to help with the class production of My Fair Lady. She became so wrapped up in the venture, studying the Edwardian costumes from the original Broadway play and choosing fabrics and ... ... trimming, that she began to feel like a real designer. Her creative pride was getting the better of her. She was forgetting what she had been taught at home and in the Christian Science Sunday School—to first of all turn to God for inspiration and know that, as Christ Jesus said, "with God all things are possible."^{Matt. 19:26;} Things did not seem to go right. The high school production teacher was critical of her efforts and said she was not following any rules and was just doing what she liked.

After a few tearful sessions Louise decided to call a Christian Science practitioner, who was a friend of the family, and talk the problem over with her. The practitioner lovingly reminded her that she had an artistic gift but she should remember that "every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."^{James 1:17;}

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