Article March 9, 1981 Issue

Prizing our spiritual maturity

Belinda Busteed Burum

"When will I be grown-up?" Do you find this question keeps surfacing? Or perhaps you already consider yourself grown-up and feel slighted when others don't see you that way.

If a person looks to a particular birthday, a special event, or a job as the threshold of maturity, he or she may find that maturity is elusive, always around the next corner. And some people never stop looking. They seem to themselves to be either underripe or overripe but never—or only fleetingly —at the point of full maturity.

Christian Science, however, tosses out this typical but futile approach to life. Mrs. Eddy gives a more helpful—and more spiritually realistic—view in Science and Health: "Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete."^{Science and Health, p. 527.}