There is not one person in all the world who does not want to be happy. No one is just content to know about good, which is God, but everyone wants to feel good, to feel God. That is bliss! God is not only Mind, the all-knowing, but God is also Soul, the source of joy. Mary Baker Eddy tells us in "Miscellaneous Writings" that "Soul is the infinite source of bliss" (p. 287); so to be aware of true joy is to be aware of God as Soul.
The Bible tells us that God "will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing" (Zeph. 3:17), even as a mother rejoices over her babe, singing with happiness. God, Love, rejoices in His reflection. The mirror of divine Science shows us man's beauty, which is the reflection of God. The Psalmist prayed (Ps. 90:17), "Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us." In truth, we have no beauty of our own apart from God, even as we have no Mind apart from God. His beauty is the beauty of holiness, the beauty of wholeness, or completeness.
Since false education accepts the testimony of the physical senses as real, thus seeming to hide the beauty and harmlessness of spiritual creation from us, so our foe from beginning to end is the testimony of these senses. Only Science teaches us how to refute this testimony with the spiritual facts of being. This is our task—a hard one it seems at times when the senses report pain and shout to us of sin and selfishness. But as we learn through experience to refute material sense with spiritual facts, we find joy and hold our peace.
