The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock of our spiritual resources. It's an ideal moment to have an honest look at ourselves, to see where we can pull in the slack. How can we demonstrate greater dominion over material self and sense and their limitations?
The prophet Isaiah urges us: "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes."Isa. 54:2;Isa. 54:2; The new year affords us a golden opportunity to respond to the prophet's graphic and practical counsel. As we enlarge "the place of [our] tent"—as we purify thought and realize more clearly the allness of God, the one divine Mind, and man's perfect life in Him—we are pushing out the barriers of limitation in our own experience. And because of the penetrating power of Truth in world thought, our higher and fresher recognition of reality contributes effectively to the good of the whole. Every time we mentally turn over a new leaf—master some phase of material sense and glimpse more vividly man's unity with God—we are hastening the eventual destruction of all error.
When the members of her household were gathered with her on New Year's morning, 1910, Mrs. Eddy wrote extemporaneously:
