Article April 13, 2015 Issue

If you look in the right place

Sue Oakes

If you’re looking for an object, and you look all over your house, search in your car, and retrace your steps, but you don’t look where the object is, you will not find it. That seems plain enough, but what about when you’re looking for peace, happiness, security, supply, companionship, purpose, meaning, joy, etc.? We often look to people, to places, to money, to jobs, and to our own prowess for fulfillment. Yet we’re simply not looking in the right places.

The spiritual essence of life is here, readily available in unlimited measure to everyone. We simply insist on looking for it in vain, where it can never be found. Once we turn our heart to God, we find the good we’re looking for, where it always has been and always will be.

During my high school years, although I had been raised attending a Christian Science Sunday School, and brought up by loving, devoted students of this Science, I began to question whether Christian Science was the ultimate truth. My high school English classes provided a full dose of the popular existential literature of the time. I decided the only way to find truth was to reject everything I had been taught and start from scratch, research other thought systems and religions, and discover truth for myself. I spent the better part of my four years of high school searching and reading and attending other churches, as well as trying meditation, alcohol, smoking, and drugs, and I became increasingly convinced that there was no truth to be found. Therefore, I could see no reason to live.

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