WHO GOES THERE?

Sheila Mary Rowley

Come to our front door, and you will meet our little dog. She's an expert doorkeeper. Even before you arrive, she hears you. With a bark and a scamper she runs to the door. Are you a friend or not? No one can get by until she finds out.

She's our watchman and guard. She welcomes in friends but no one else. So we call her Porter. Can you guess why? Her name is taken from a very important rule in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "Stand porter at the door of thought."^{Science and Health, p. 392;}

How can I forget this rule when she's around? Each time she plays porter I remind myself: "Guard your mental home. Watch what you are letting into your thinking."

Why is it so important to stand porter at the door of thought? Well, everything we do, everything that happens to us, starts with our thinking. So loving, Godlike thoughts show up in loving, Godlike lives. Then what should we do with unkind thoughts, or afraid or sick thoughts? We say, "No! You can't come in!"

Wrong thoughts have no right to take up any place in our thinking. We are a home for God's thoughts only. Sometimes a wrong thought comes that seems like a good thought. It may look good on the outside. But if you're not sure, question it. Ask, "Now, thought, are you really loving?" "Do you come from God?" "Are you honest and truthful?" If the answer is No, then say, "No! You can't come in!"

Then quickly fill your thinking with good and right thoughts, so that there is just no room left for anything else. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210;}

Christ Jesus wanted everyone to be wide-awake thought-porters and watchmen. He said, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch."^{Mark 13:37.}

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