Article July 17, 1978 Issue

The clear-cut separateness of evil

GRACE HOUGH CARTER

Our hearts sank when we looked at the field of winter wheat that we had plowed, harrowed, soil-tested, fertilized, and planted. The weeds were something fierce!

My husband said, "I'm afraid the farmer who's agreed to harvest this crop will take one look at those weeds, turn around, and go back home." To our glad surprise, however, the farmer simply said, "The weeds don't matter." As he went to work with his powerful combine, we watched it pull through the kernels of wheat and strew the chaff and the weeds behind.

Sometimes when we survey consciousness, it seems that in spite of our best efforts and most diligent study, ungodlike thoughts and emotions are springing up as fast as good thoughts. Christian Science brings us the comforting understanding that divine Truth separates the weeds from the wheat—quickly and efficiently. The realization that weedlike thoughts don't matter because actually they're no part of one should lift us out of discouragement.

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