Editorial February 8, 1975 Issue

The Ability We All Have

Geoffrey J. Barratt

There is one ability we all have. We've always had it. We always will. It's the ability to be what we are, the ability to be God's idea. Christian Science explains how to recognize and to express this ability.

As we grasp the understanding that we have the ability to be what we actually are, we find we begin dropping off layers of material thinking. This results in our coping with our own difficulties more readily. And a usual consequence of this is that we are asked by others to help them shed materialism and the limitations and stresses that inhere in it.

In a deeper sense, the ability to be what we truly are is more than an ability, more than a capacity that we can pick up or put down at will. That we are always what we are is the natural and inescapable fact of real being. The truth is that because man's real selfhood is the representation of divine Mind, man has no choice: our real identity is not an entity that can choose either to be what it is or to be something else.

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