Editorial August 8, 1983 Issue

Take your life out of limbo

NATHAN A. TALBOT

At times it seems that's just where life is—sort of in between the situation we want to leave behind and the place we want to reach.

For one person this might have to do with his job. He has outgrown his present one, but the next step just hasn't opened up yet. Another person's intermediate state may involve a relationship difficulty that has left him dangling between an unhappy past and an uncertain future. Still another condition of limbo could be represented by a chronic illness—things aren't really worse, but they aren't much better either.

There are lots of things we can blame if we're in such a state of drift. The economy. Disease. The wrongful action of a neighbor, employer, spouse. But none of this is where the blame truly lies. When we deal with the real culprit, we can begin breaking out of suspension. We need to deal with what Christian Science describes as "material sense."

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