Article February 24, 1997 Issue

Freedom from unhappy memories

Marian Cates

Recently I spent some time with a good friend I've known for many years. Our conversation naturally turned to remembering previous times together. We filled each other in on things that had happened when we were apart. I had to watch, though, that I didn't fall into the trap of telling her lies.

Now, before you start wondering what kind of creep would lie to a friend, let me explain that I don't mean lies in the commonly used sense of the word. I mean tales of mortality, with good and bad all mixed up together. I've learned through my study and practice of Christian Science—and from communing with God—that man's true identity is spiritual and perfect because man is the likeness of God. Since God doesn't have a history of good and bad mixed together, such a history is actually illegitimate for His offspring.

"The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged," Mary Baker Eddy writes in her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection (p. 22). The question is, How can you undo something that's already happened? Isn't it already a part of you?

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