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Making a Fresh Start

TAKING a fresh start in life Is
V not matter of place or time.
AsA Very frequently, the desire to
begin over again arises from the feel
ing that somehow we seem to have
missed grasping life's deeper mean
ing, including our own relationship
to it. And the conviction that per-
sonal or business affairs are becom
ing more and more discordant or un
satisfying gives support to this feel
ing. What, we may ask. is to be dom
about the matter? Surely we are Ell
titled to go forward al all times. an'
to enjoy in ever-increasing measure
our divine right to happiness, free.
dom, and plenty.
For the answer to this query, W
need but turn to the words and worl
of Christ Jesus. Again and again di
this great Teacher endeavur to max
plain to those who wished to shar
in the blessing of his ministry. thu
fact that healing and salvation would
be found in the degree that spirit
ualized and demonstrable under
standing of God was acquired. But
to acquire this understanding, he in
sisted, mortals must be prepared tu
relinutIish material beliefs and evil
thinking, which cannot comprehend
God, Spirit. In words unparalleled
in their scope and emphasis, he de-
clared John 3:3), Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the king
dom of God"
Spiritual renewal, then, is pre-
requisite to entrance into the kingdom
of God. In other words, in order to
bring divine good into our present
experience, our thinking needs to
undergo change of base, that 1t may
accept the fact Of spiritual reality
us constituting the truth in every
situation and circumstance. This i'm
plies becoming ever more conscious
that the real man exists spiritually,
not materially. The Master made
very clear the absolute necessity of
gaining newborn sense of existence
when he added, "That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit" (John
3:6). That is to say, material thinking
is mortal, and its consequences are
discord and mortality. Per contra,
spiritual thinking is of Spirit, and
the fruitage thereof is harmony and
Immortality. Spiritual understand
ing Is the activity of divine intelli-
gence and wisdom, bringing the love
liness and glory of real being to light
Thus we see that making fresh
start is not matter of place or OF
time. The kind of thinking that has
brought about sense OF defeat and
despair in one place is very likely,
if uncorrected, to bring about the
same result i'm another place. Nor is
the human element of time sufficient
of itself to improve our experience.
since mistakes ignorantly made one
day may all unwittingly be repeated
the next. AS Mary Baker Eddy, the
Discoverer and Founder of Christian
Science, points out i'm Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures
u. 20D: "We cannot build safely on
false foundations. Truth lakes
new creature, in whom old things
pass away and all things are become
new Obviously, any mere re-
shutiling of our thinking on the same
old materialistic basis must always
prove unavailing.
SeIfishness, personal hostility, i'm
patience, greed, "that which is born
of the flesh," can but lead to moral
and physical inharmony. On the
other hand, i'm the rel,irth OF ON
thinking to conform to the pattern
of genuine being, we are laying claim
to our God-bestowed heritage of
spiritual dominion. The Chris
tian Science Monitor.