Article April 17, 2017 Issue

Cultivate your mental garden

Karen Hertlein

Sorting, cleaning, organizing, gardening, banking, emailing, and cooking are a few important life skills one can learn. But the most essential skill of all is one we might call “thought-gardening.” 

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, points out over and over the need to guard our thought and choose carefully what we accept into consciousness. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures she writes, “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” (p. 261). 

The Bible offers guidance for cultivating thought as well. In Philippians 4:8 we read, “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

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