Article March 2, 1998 Issue

LOOKING FOR GOOD AT THE GROCERY STORE

Diana L. Hallock

Grocery shopping—a weekly chore, filled with people that are too busy, impatient, and quite often rude. How I disliked it!

One afternoon some months ago, as I was preparing my grocery list, I decided to add "good" to the things I needed to get at the store. I knew from experience that I could look for, and expect to see, good manifested all around me as long as my thoughts were God-centered. The textbook of Christian Science offers this counsel: "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts" (Science and Health, p. 261).

That was what I decided to do. I was going shoping for good! On my way to the store, I prayed to know my inseparability from good as God's reflection and to understand that everyone I would come into contact with was God's child, reflecting the same goodness. I also prayed to remain alert for opportunities to do good myself. This statement sums up my newfound expectancy: "From Love and from the light and harmony which are the abode of Spirit, only reflections of good can come" (ibid., p. 280).

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