Article December 11, 2006 Issue

INTELLIGENT ACTION, INTELLIGENT FEELING

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

As I Hurried Along the sidewalk, I veered around a hole where some construction work was underway. Why the little detour? It wasn't because my legs decided to avoid a fall. It was just more intelligent to walk around the hole than tumble into it!

We do all sorts of things each day based not on what the body says to do but on what intelligence says to do. Wisdom isn't in physical hands or legs. It isn't even in some electrochemical action believed to be originating in gray putty called a brain. Real intelligence has its origin in Spirit or God, not matter.

Think about it. What if action and feeling really are impelled by a divine, instead of material, source? Mary Baker Eddy once wrote, "Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 393).

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