FROM THE EDITORS November 13, 2006 Issue

AN 'ALL-NEW' APPROACH TO DAILY LIVING

THE RENOWNED BRITISH FLUTIST Sir James Galway performed recently at the opening concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's new season. Shortly before he went on stage, Sir James was asked in a local radio interview how he coped with the public demand to keep playing the same old standards week after week.

Galway's answer was refreshing. He said it was rather like saying prayers with a child night after night. As the child grows to love the commitment more, the prayers are extended. They go beyond "God bless Mommy and Daddy" to include the new dog. Later, a sick friend. Then, a troubled world. In the same way, said Galway, he tries always to enlarge his view of the work he is playing. "Look at this bit," he'll say to himself. "I missed this," or "I missed that." In this way, he sees or learns something new every time he tackles a piece of music.

It's much the same with spiritual development, especially as Mary Baker Eddy explained it in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "... Love propagates anew the higher joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth. Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love" (p. 66). No time or space there for looking back, for the repetition of old patterns of thought, the routines of past comfort.

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