Article March 9, 1998 Issue

Get your life back on track

Friendship restored, flu healed, thought focused on God.

By Thomas Rhodes Hundley

Have you ever felt that you were in a rut, or had feelings of gloom about your prospects? I've felt that way. Sometimes those feelings have been all the more shocking because I've been under the impression that I was doing everything just right—striving to be the best human being that I could.

Recently, I was deeply worried about my career and my finances. Things just didn't seem to be working out, and I began to get quite stressed about the future. In studying the Bible Lesson (found in the Christian Science Quarterly), I discovered during my time of doubt and distress that I'd been taken in by a very materialistic view of myself.

This came as a surprise because I'd been fairly certain that I was doing a good job of understanding that my true selfhood is spiritual, the image and likeness of God. But as I considered my situation, I realized that even though I had worked hard on progressing in my spiritual understanding, I still entertained some unfavorable and unloving thoughts without attempting to eradicate them.

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