One of the great assurances of Christian Science is that those who have learned to know God as the source of all that is good can no more lose anything that is good and enduring than they can be separated from God. "It is impossible that man should lose aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 302 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
Perhaps the greatest challenge to a Christian Scientist is that of helping another regain what is often defined as "lost inspiration." The inspiration which he had once known may seem to have waned while he has been working out a problem of personal relationship, or struggling with some physical handicap or a discouraging effort to find remunerative and interesting work.
Many of us at some time through the years have found ourselves feeling that we have lost some of our earlier sense of confidence in our ability to demonstrate the presence of God, that our light has dimmed. In those moments it is defeating to lament and to ask, "Why, oh, why?" and to struggle to recapture something which we think we have lost.
