Article June 4, 1984 Issue

Spiritual responsiveness: right thinking, feeling, acting

MARILYN KAY BLAND

I remember being very unhappy while I was in junior high school, when a certain wish didn't come true. I have long since forgotten the wish, but I do remember the advice my older brother gave me. Expressing his mature wisdom (after all, he was in high school), he pointed out that my face wouldn't break if I smiled a little. And sure enough he was right!

Such an incident points toward the importance of letting our feelings be governed by the sense of good that is entirely outside the personal or material sense of things. What is this good?

Christian Science defines good as God, divine Truth, who governs His creation as Principle. And man in his true nature is seen to reflect God, to be wholly expressive of Him and His goodness.

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