Editorial February 22, 1982 Issue

Our prayers within our home

DeWITT JOHN

Surely there's a pressing need today for better answers to discord in the home—harshness, strife, disruption, or a lack of communication. Through the teachings of Christian Science we find there is an answer. In essence, this answer is for the heart and the home to be God-centered in spirit—not self-centered or given over to any form of idolatrous materialism.

In accord with the inspired Bible teachings, Christian Science shows that God, absolute Love, is good—so divinely pure and all-powerful that no evil can exist in His omnipresence. This truth is the basis for working out questions of family relations.

In the words of Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "Good is divinely natural. Evil is unnatural; it has no origin in the nature of God, and He is the Father of all."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 288.} The earnest prayer of one accepting this truth (and patiently striving to express it in thoughts and actions) opens the way for increasing good to flow into his experience, including his home, the wider family circle, and his whole environment.