Many years ago, as a new student of Christian Science, I learned about the intrinsically mental nature of existence. As I became more alert to this, I found my sensitivity to the general drift of thought increasing. For instance, I recall that as Easter approached I detected a distinct change in the surrounding thinking—a sense of gloom and doom seemed to settle on the seasonal atmosphere of renewal.
As I prayed about that, it felt clear to me I was picking up on thoughts focused on the tragedy of the crucifixion, rather than the joy of the resurrection.
The crucifixion, of course, is key to the Easter story. It’s right to reflect on the array of worldly thinking that conspired to cut short the life and ideas of the most spiritually minded individual that’s ever lived.
