Most people have been taught to think of themselves as self-sufficient human beings, separated at birth from that which is believed to be their creative source. So, like a kind of storage battery, their energies and strength often become depleted. They seek various material methods of restoration with no permanent success. How satisfying, then, to discover in Christian Science that God is the only Life, and to find that man, His beloved child, can never be separated from infinite Life. In this unity of God and man is found the remedy for all mortal weariness, frustration, and depletion. True energy is spiritual—never physical or material. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 381), "In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God."
On the West Coast of the United States one may see beautiful groves of redwood trees, tall, straight, and majestic. Well rooted, many of them have grown uninterruptedly for more than two thousand years. They seem to symbolize the grandeur, strength, and eternality of Spirit. The storms of time have been unable to destroy them. The teachings of Christian Science, revealed to us by its Discoverer and Founder, Mrs. Eddy, clearly show us that as sons of God we are now and at all times actually rooted in Christ, sustained and protected by Truth and governed by divine law. Continual growth is a law of God for His creation. Whatever would claim to hide divine Love or to prevent the manifestation of it can today be proved as powerless as it was proved in the age in which Christ Jesus lived.
In the third chapter of Ephesians (verses 17–19) is a beautiful passage in which the Apostle Paul expressed the desire "that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Even a partial realization of being spiritually "rooted and grounded in love" commences to lift thought and experience above earth-bound material and physical beliefs.
