Editorial July 13, 1981 Issue

Important enough to forget

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

How to forget false education, destructive mental images, and unhappy memories is a Christly gift. Far from repression, and equally distanced from trying to crowd out such things with an accelerated pace of living, this gift of forgetting redeems the past. "Forgetting," in this sense, is not just oblivion. When Christ, the divine manifestation of God, touches human consciousness, what happens is more than the erasure of a false picture. Consciousness itself is seen to be the divine concept and capacity it really is, and man's true Christly knowing permanently displaces something that has been imposed from material education and experience.

Instead of trying to ignore the things we'd like to forget, we might well consider making them important enough so that we consciously shed Christly light upon them. A character in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral says:

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