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A different slant on memory
“This can’t be happening to me!” I thought. I’d begun having episodes of forgetfulness—from names of people eluding me to leaving food cooking on the stove unattended. I’d heard people jokingly refer to these lapses as “senior moments.” However, this was no joke to me. Not only because of practical concerns, but because I viewed these forgetful episodes as blatant denials of divine Mind’s perfect, continuous knowing of itself and its creation, and of my God-given ability to reflect this continuous knowing. God was the only Mind I acknowledged. I knew I possessed no other, and that forgetfulness was a fallacious misconception of that one true Mind of man (meaning all of us). It was the belief of a supposititious mind in matter, termed in Christian Science mortal mind or error.
It is this fictitious mentality that seems to promote a tendency to forget. This inclination stems from an ignorance of the one infinite Mind, God. It suggests that we possess a personal, material mind apart from God—that a physical organ called the brain is the seat of conscious thought and its functions. Furthermore, it is believed that if this brain declines because of age, deteriorates due to disease, or is damaged in any way, we lose our capacity to reason or think clearly. But this would make matter more powerful than God, Mind.
To disregard these errors or neglect to correct them would only allow them to grow in thought. Instead, we can open our thoughts to Christ, the light of Truth in human consciousness. Christ enables all God’s loved children to possess the “sound mind” the Bible speaks of (see ll Timothy 1:7).
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