Article October 9, 1976 Issue

How Do You Counsel Others?

SHIRLEY SELBY

In Christianly scientific living one strives to let Love motivate his thoughts and acts, including his attitude toward his brother—to express concern, compassion, and interest toward him. If we are expressing genuine, Christly love to anyone in need, whether a close relative, a friend, or a stranger, we can be sure that our efforts to help will be effective and enduring. We will be motivated by, and act according to, divine Principle rather than personal consideration.

As we grow in our understanding of Christian Science, we learn to acknowledge that God, Mind, is divine Principle and that Principle governs harmoniously and absolutely the entire universe and man. And as we gain this clearer concept of creation and see man as an individual, perfect idea in Mind, we are better able to honor the right and privilege of each one to experience and prove for himself his inseparable unity with his Father-Mother God. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done."^{Science and Health, p. 202;}

The true disciple, striving in all of his motives and his acts to emulate Christ Jesus, is alert to the tendency of willful mortal mind to want to dominate and control situations and people. He recognizes as unscientific and unreal the desire to interfere with the life of another through misguided manipulation or pressure. His awakened understanding that man's relationship to God is sacred and individual shows him there is never a go-between.

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