Article December 14, 1981 Issue

Christmas overflow

ELIZABETH GLASS BARLOW

What a comforting, assured feeling we have when we know that someone dear to us is close by, that we do not walk alone or in an uncaring crowd! Sometimes the humdrum or the rush of day-today demands shouts so loudly that we can hardly find the inner peace we long for. Isn't this actually what most of us truly want— inner quietness, telling us something better than the commercialism and hurry so laced into the Christmas season?

Christian Science offers us this majestically different approach. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded this Science, gives a sense of the very presence of the Christ in these lines:

And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk. Poems, p. 12 .