Article November 8, 1982 Issue

Who am I?

ADRIAN DeWINDT

How unsuccessful a salesman would be if on half of his calls he failed to identify himself correctly! I've learned from the sales business the importance of that first step.

One day a black mental cloud of depression argued that God's harmony was absent. Physical discomfort, business setbacks, and frictional relationships clamored for attention. I was mentally grumbling over these accumulating problems.

Then I was struck by the parallel between the need to identify myself on a sales call and the requirement in Christian Science for correct spiritual self-identification as the son of God. I saw the logic and inspiration of meeting every facet of evil with a conviction of my true being as the image of God; and I did it then and there.

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