Reflecting God is an effortless process for God's man. It requires no straining, struggle, or tenseness, for God expresses Himself through man, unfolding in him intelligence, love, joy, peace, strength —all right ideas. As the little bird on a bright summer morning effortlessly gives forth beauty and loveliness in his song, so man effortlessly expresses God. This glorious expressing of God is man's reason for existing.
To identify ourselves as the child of God and this effortless expression of good, we need to relinquish the false sense of self and let God shine or be manifest in our consciousness. To do this we must understand that God, good, is the only Mind and that man's consciousness is the reflection of this Mind. Thoughts unlike God, good, can then be proved unreal, without source or power.
Mary Baker Eddy speaks of God shining through consciousness in the following quotation from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 295): "The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality—much error—in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun."
