Article November 8, 1975 Issue

Disillusioned-Dropping Out?

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

Disillusion hurts. To have our once high regard for an individual or an institution steadily deteriorate can be shattering.

But when this happens to us, as it does in almost everyone's experience at some time, an important thing is how we react to it. We can let ourselves subside into depression and indifference, or we can weather the shock, learn the lesson each such experience holds, and grow stronger. Christian Science, prompting us to focus on what is good and worthwhile, empowers us to do the latter.

Mrs. Eddy writes: "Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love. If you maintain this position, who or what can cause you to sin or suffer?"^{Pulpit and Press, p. 3;}