Article June 10, 1985 Issue

We should be so blessed

KEO FELKER LAZARUS

The concept of luck crops up often in public thought. A flyer in the mail notes, "This could be your lucky day." Somebody says, "Good luck!" Someone else commiserates, "He's down on his luck." The skeptic notes, "We should be so lucky!" Why does the word "luck" draw us into such common and unthinking usage?

The concept of luck is rooted in a basic fancy about life itself—that we happen to get born, that we struggle along under the influence of a mix of material substances and laws, and finally that we drop out of life in some fearsome way. You could almost say that luck is the superstition that life in matter is real.

But the only real premise to give our attention to is that man is spiritual and lives in Spirit, under God's law. Our lives are not governed by lawless matter or chance, but by God, good.

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