Article October 26, 1981 Issue

The success is in the sharing

JACK V. SMITH

Some of us have been invited to a potluck dinner where everyone is asked to bring a dish to share. And we've always been well satisfied afterward, partly because of the good cooking and also because we've come away with something to use later—a good recipe, for instance. The success of the potluck is in the sharing. But it wouldn't be much of a potluck if no one brought anything.

In a sense, isn't this what the Wednesday evening testimony meeting is all about—sharing? Isn't it a kind of spiritual feast that all of us can contribute to and take part in? A potluck dinner feeds and satisfies us for just a short time, whereas the Wednesday evening meeting gives us spiritual bread that feeds us forever. Think if each of us, each Wednesday evening, brought news of a healing, or a unique insight we had had during the week in our daily study of the Lesson-Sermon ^{In the Christian Science Quarterly .} or through individual research. Think of the feast we could have! But, like the potluck dinner, it wouldn't be much of a feast if we didn't bring something, would it?

The selections from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that are read to us on Wednesday nights entail considerable research and prayer by the First Reader, and they often result in healing. But these readings are a kind of "appetizer," because the greater part of the hour is left for the congregation—all of us—to add to the feast of love, joy, and thanksgiving by sharing what Christian Science has done through healing us and expanding our understanding of God.

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