WHY should this happen to me? Why should I have to suffer so? Why should I have so much to meet? These and similar questions are often raised by those seeking an answer to the puzzles of daily living. Oddly enough, one seldom hears the questions: Why does so much good come to me? Why am I so greatly blessed? Mankind's questions usually have to do with the frustrations and not the benefactions of life.
A study of Christian Science, however, reveals to mankind the glorious truth of being that the real man is not downtrodden, underprivileged, and frustrated, subject to the hardships and deprivations of material living. Conversely, he is the child of divine Love, the beneficiary of all the good that is God's. This is his eternal heritage, his divine right. God never withholds any good thing from His creation, and in the proportion that one is receptive to divine Love's beneficence is he the recipient of the blessings God bestows.
In her "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy declares (p. 155), "All power and happiness are spiritual, and proceed from goodness." Divine Love is ever supplying us with all the advantages, opportunities, and blessings necessary for our improvement and advancement. But there must be receptivity on our part, a desire to listen and be led, rather than a tendency to question, to hesitate, or to dispute. When doubt and uncertainty arise, this is proof that the carnal mind, rather than divine Mind, is being heard. All questioning and indecision is in mortal mind. There are no whys in the kingdom of heaven.
