Article January 19, 1981 Issue

Does speaking up get you down?

L. DARLENE BASFORD

Would you like to speak more freely in front of others? Perhaps you have a good idea to express, but reasons for not doing so flood in.

These "reasons" may signal a need to pray. Advice to "think positively" is well meant, but not a cure for knee-shaking, voice-quavering turmoil. And the counterpart—dull, "I don't care" apathy—perhaps conceals an unacknowledged desire just to melt away.

But scientific prayer always helps. It involves understanding the spiritual facts about ourselves and the people who will hear us. One such fact is that man, made in the image of God, has dominion; he is not a composition of materiality, either nervous and agitated or sluggish and passive.

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