Article January 23, 1995 Issue

Overcoming self-condemnation

Lynn G. Jackson

There are times when we realize that our actions have fallen short of expectations—perhaps we missed an opportunity or made a wrong decision or feel we've strayed off the course—and often the response is to sink into a downward spiral of self-condemnation and depression.

What should our response be when we feel our life is less than we expected, or even seems downright useless? We can learn more of man's God-given worth and stop looking at a past mistake as capable of producing a present problem.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health: "Deity was satisfied with His work. How could he be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-containment and immortal wisdom?" (p. 519)

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