Creativity is Soul in action

Shortly after becoming interested in Christian Science, I found my first position as a special-material writer in broadcasting.

Arriving at network headquarters at 5 a.m., I would scan the news wires and then write topical jokes based on items in the news. Well-meaning friends would say, "How clever and creative you are to write so humorously—particularly at that time of day." I suppose I did consider myself a gifted creator of the one-liner, the stylized double-entendre, the misplaced sound effect.

I was knee-deep in the sort of thinking Mrs. Eddy describes when she says: "Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be independent workers, personal authors, and even privileged originators of something which Deity would not or could not create." Science and Health, p. 263;

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