Article November 1, 1975 Issue

We're All Special

MARY LLOYD DOW MILLS

Do you think others are better than you? Do they seem more talented, more intelligent, or more prosperous? As God's expression each of us has an abundance of good, love, talents, intelligence. God's reflection, man, is complete. Mrs. Eddy tells us: "The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation."^{Science and Health, p. 516;}

If you see yourself or another as having no special talents, as being ordinary, as lacking in intelligence or in accomplishments, you need to take a better look. Reassess your outlook and acknowledge the good that God's man expresses. A hymn verse includes these words: "Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be,/As more of heaven in each we see."^{Christian Science Hymnal, No. 140;} In changing our outlook we begin by getting the right view of ourselves, by learning to see ourselves in the right light as God's ideas and as the expression of all the qualities of good. Whatever we don't like about ourselves can be reversed and replaced with good qualities. God gives us the ability to clear away mental debris and manifest only good.

As we keep these good qualities more in thought we will bring them out in our daily experience. To continually focus on faults or limitations is not productive of good. "We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually," Mrs. Eddy writes, "or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives."^{Science and Health, p. 248;}