Article March 19, 1979 Issue

Creativity is Soul in action

ROBERT A. WILKIN

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;}