Editorial March 30, 1981 Issue

What we can do about inflation

DeWITT JOHN

One struggling to cope with inflation can gain comfort and reassurance, as well as positive help, from the light that Christian Science throws on questions of supply.

To many people inflation brings feelings of helplessness as well as apprehension, because they appear to be trapped by inexorable economic forces quite beyond an individual's (or even a nation's) power to control. Yet Christian Science provides an entirely different perspective. Our need is to lift our sense of things from the framework of mortal limits and objects to the spiritually scientific understanding of God, divine Love, as the infinite Giver, whose laws supply every need of man and continually unfold real substance, which is spiritual and infinite.

The human mind starts with limits—in this instance rising price levels, lagging income levels, limited goods, and a hard-to-control inflationary trend—as well as the taken-for-granted assumption that one's supply is material and governed by such factors.

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