Article February 25, 1985 Issue

Options or God-directed choice?

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

More often than we've probably noted, we're faced with various options regarding what we'll think. And even our small choices, made almost casually, affect the overall character of our thought. They influence the life course we chart.

Many decisions are easy to make. Some are obviously right; some are just as clearly wrong. But what about the gray areas? Then especially we need more than the relatively limited skills of the human mind. Omniscient Mind necessarily sees further than human thought that is hemmed in with fears and limitations. The spiritual fact is, God is the only Mind, and man His expression. As we learn this fact and live in accord with it, we find we always have available to us through the Christ the wisdom and comprehensive intelligence of Mind, God.

In decisionmaking we surely don't have to suffer the agony of being torn two or more ways. Or listen to mortal mind's occasional argument that there is no acceptable option open to us. There is always a way, and we can discern and follow it under Mind's direction.

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