Article January 10, 1983 Issue

You don't have to consent to lack!

NORMAN GARY BLEICHMAN

Lack seems to dominate many people's lives these days. Whether in the form of insufficient resources, unforeseen obligations, or limited abilities, lack often appears to be center stage, calling the shots, causing fear and desperation to motivate mankind.

Are we unwittingly consenting to this erroneous influence? Are we endorsing lack as a necessity of life in the 1980's? We don't have to. Christian Science shows us the way out.

Where in the world does the concept of lack come from? There's the answer: the world—or, to put it more exactly, the material senses. They regularly parade before us symptoms of want and inadequacy—if not in terms of sheer hunger and homelessness, then through declining bank balances to meet rent and grocery bills. The media, on the one hand, unrelentingly report on the dire economic conditions affecting the masses and, on the other, glorify the "good life" enjoyed by society's affluent few.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

Come out from the porches of Bethesda