Editorial February 2, 1974 Issue

Good Is Natural

Geoffrey J. Barratt

We advance by accepting the naturalness of good. Because God is good and God is All, good is natural. It is natural because there is nothing else. It characterizes all that is in God's universe. These points are central in the revelation of Christian Science. If we believe that good—expressed as liveliness, intelligence, health, or whatever—must be manufactured or contrived, we're not going about demonstrating Christian Science in the best way.

We may too often bog down our advancement by approaching difficulties with a negative viewpoint, as though limitation, poor health, misery, are more natural than their spiritual opposites, freedom, health, and joy. By challenging this unnatural approach we can demonstrate the spiritual truth of God and man more spontaneously and scientifically, and so move ahead.

Take the case of someone struggling with a chronic ailment that may not have made its exit even after months of conscientious prayer. The temptation may be to believe that the problem and its attendant discomfort are more natural than health and dominion. It's not hard to move from that point into trying—perhaps desperately—to get good to come to us, or to become bigger. But prayer or treatment doesn't produce good; it uncovers it as present where the error seemed active.

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