COMPANIONSHIP is one of humanity's most prized blessings, and, gained in its true sense, it enriches and makes more fruitful every life. This being so, why should any of God's children lack happy and satisfying companionship? Nothing which really blesses does the loving Father withhold from His own sons and daughters. If, therefore, a blessing seems to be absent, may it not be because the one from whom it is withheld has not yet gained the right concept of God, good?
Christian Scientists are counseled by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, to strive earnestly to impersonalize their sense of existence, which naturally means everything included therein. In a passage in "Miscellaneous Writings" she writes (p. 310), "To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence—rather than cling to personality—is the lesson of to-day."
As companionship is an experience in daily human existence, the gaining of the true spiritual idea of it will impersonalize it in a scientific way for the one who successfully makes this effort, because spiritual ideas are always impersonal, being the reflection of impartial, universal divine Love. Thus, the perception of the right idea of companionship will be seen as ever present and eternal, and, consequently, within the mental reach of all. But this divine ideal will not be gained by attempting to clothe it with human form or likeness, for it is not with persons but with spiritual ideas that individual spiritual man is companioned and associated.
