UPFRONT October 19, 2009 Issue

IN PURSUIT OF GOODNESS

PATRICIA KADICK, STAFF EDITOR

Today the push on all societies to pattern one's life after a material model, exempts neither the three-year-old nor the retiree. We're presented with a seemingly infinite number of surefire ways to find better health, looks, greater strength, and deeper love.

Yet time and again such promises fall far short of one's true yearnings and needs. So, the Sentinel staff wanted to present ideas that encourage looking to both a spiritual and practical model—one inspired by God's divine and infinite character.

It seems to me that God's infinity provides abundant ways to find spiritual health and joy. And Mary Baker Eddy wrote more than once about the importance of our thought-models in pursuit of goodness. Here's one of my favorites: "As our ideas of Deity become more spiritual, we express them by objects more beautiful. . . . Thus it is that our ideas of divinity form our models of humanity" (The People's Idea of God, p. 14).

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