Article June 20, 1988 Issue

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The Christian Science Monitor

We rely on numbers to tell us all sorts of things: how much or how little provision will come from our income; how many pounds away we are from "beauty"; how successful our business will be.

Obviously, we couldn't live in a practical way without numbers. Nonetheless, we don't need to live for them. Too often numbers become severe and demanding taskmasters. We anxiously watch them go up and down and then set about with toilsome effort to change them. But how often that turns out to be a wild-goose chase! By nature, mortal, materialistic thinking is never more than temporarily satisfied with anything. It always wants more of this and less of that. Haven't we all discovered this at some point, in relation to the numbers that turn up on the bathroom scale, in our checkbook, on the stock market?

It's not really the numbers that need to change in order to silence the discontent. It's the discontent that needs to change! To find the peace, security, and stability we're looking for requires looking to the original and only source of good. And that is God. It requires spiritual perception to know the things of God, and Christian Science teaches that we all, innately, include spiritual sense. It's given to us by God. We become more aware of it, and cultivate it, through prayer and a progressive purification of thought.

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