Article June 6, 1983 Issue

Love, full and overflowing

MARY BARNES

Most people love to see a full moon or a garden in full bloom. Actors love to perform to a full house. Full employment is an admirable goal. Fullness has a universal appeal. It plays an important role on the human scene.

To a Christian Scientist, the concept of fullness has special significance; it has to do with the content of his thought. If consciousness is filled with right desires, loving impulses, unselfed ambition, then peace and joy follow naturally. But if ungodlike traits are allowed to enter unchecked and unchallenged and to lodge in thought, harmony can no longer be expected to prevail. This is why the content of our thinking is so vital; why it's necessary to keep constant watch to ensure that nothing unspiritual or ungodlike finds lodgment.

How wise was Mrs. Eddy's admonition: "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them." She continues: "It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full. There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210.

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