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Who has an ego problem? This question came to mind some months ago. It was a time of year when the suggestion that seasonal symptoms of sickness are valid and inevitable can seem particularly strong, causing us to accept the possibility that we can experience anything other than perfect health and perfect harmony with our Father-Mother, God, good.

In praying about this, I knew that Truth, God, was on my side. As a student of Christian Science, I knew so well man’s exemption from such claims. God had never mandated sickness for His image and likeness, and I could not be fooled into feeling the effects of what was simply an unreal suggestion coming to thought.

This confidence in the ever-presence of God, Love, has been a sure foundation for me through many years. The Bible, as our “chart of life” (Mary Baker Eddy, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” p. 24), has plenty to say on the subject. For instance, after an experience proving to him the absolute might of the one God, Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar declared, “How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation” (Daniel 4:3). That same recognition brings comfort, joy, health, and harmony today, just as it did in ancient times.

Then why was I feeling a subtle suggestion of symptoms that I had not experienced in many years? Hadn’t I been praying for myself daily and studying the inspiring truths in the weekly Bible Lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly? Perhaps there was some new concept that I needed to grasp.

It was about this time that I was reminded of some words about ego in Science and Health. Mrs. Eddy speaks about ego several times in her writings, and with the example that follows, I was in for a great lesson. Speaking of God as Soul and Mind, she writes, “Man is the reflection of Soul. He is the direct opposite of material sensation, and there is but one Ego. We run into error when we divide Soul into souls, multiply Mind into minds and suppose error to be mind, then mind to be in matter and matter to be a lawgiver, unintelligence to act like intelligence, and mortality to be the matrix of immortality” (pp. 249-250).

Here was my turning point! While I had gladly been declaring my freedom as a child of God, I had failed to wrap all of humanity in the same healing Love by seeing them embraced in the same atmosphere of Soul. I had to guard against any belief, however small, proposing that an ego of my own was welcome to know health but that others might still suffer. Didn’t Christ Jesus show us that there was one universal source of good when he said to a young man, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God” (Matthew 19:17)? His was a full understanding that all are complete and perfect individual expressions of the one Ego, God, not that goodness was only for him or a select few.

This unfoldment of Truth invigorated my study and freed me from the symptoms I’d been experiencing. Correction of my thought to the understanding that the blessings from the one Ego are not an exclusive gift but are freely given to all humanity ensured my own continued expression of life and health, and I was healed.

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There can be no “ego problem” or conflicting egos when we remember that in Truth, there is only one God, one Ego.

Originally published in the June 8, 2026, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.

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