One of mankind's most heart-rending afflictions is grief. In spite of human theorizing that time and circumstances can heal it, individuals have sometimes suffered its pangs for years.
Christian Science comforts the grief-stricken by revealing the truth that neither love nor eternal life includes an element of sorrow. Science shows that because God is good, good is divine; good is therefore not brought to us by mortals or taken away by mortals. And the moment we identify as God's own the good that we have loved, that we have had association with and have been blessed by, we break the mesmeric and idolatrous belief that good was a personal possession or belonged to certain persons. When we understand that in reality we were never in the presence of personal, finite good, we shall no longer suffer the pangs due to a belief in a personal absence.
When someone attempted to personalize the good which Jesus expressed, the Master quickly rebuked it by saying (Matt. 19: 17), "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." He thus identified good as the impartial and impersonal manifestation of God. Life's eternal activity is good. Death is the belief in the cessation or absence of good, but because God and good are as inseparable as are the sun's rays from the sun, death must simply be a lie, not an event. Omnipresent Spirit makes separation from spiritual qualities an impossibility.
