Article April 20, 2020 Issue

Not afraid but not naive

Nathan Talbot

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column March 9, 2020.

I’ve been hearing the same voices many others in society have been listening to—media, government officials, friends. And the focus is pretty constantly the same: coronavirus. A lot of people have learned a new word, and too many of them are afraid of it.

But recently a little phrase has been surfacing in my thought. It’s this: Christ is voicing good, right within consciousness. What an incredible contrast to all the bad stuff I was taking in. It’s clear to me that the source of that more hopeful thought is Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, where she writes, “Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness” (p. 332).

The Christ can bring a spiritual poise that changes our experiences.