Article June 17, 1991 Issue

How do we spiritualize our thought?

Darlene Basford

My husband and I were on a business trip and enjoying the summer landscape in a midwestern state. The round hills and gentle valleys provided lovely views of well-kept farm buildings nestled among fertile fields, striped in green, brown, and gold. The sun shone brightly, and the air was fragrant with earth and growing things.

Yet I felt uneasy, as if somehow I shouldn't be out in the sunshine but should instead be at my desk studying Christian Science and praying. I had already done a suitable amount of study and prayer for the day and would be doing more later on, and I knew it was very right to be accompanying my husband on a useful business trip. Yet the feeling I wasn't doing what I should was robbing me of joy. Clearly, spiritual ideas, not human reasoning, were needed.

As a Christian Scientist, I regularly studied the Bible, and this had taught me that God, or Spirit, is the source of all true joy. Therefore the joy I was feeling from the beautiful day and countryside didn't originate in matter. The beauty of nature hints at the deeper reality of Spirit's allness, right here.

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