If we are truly alive to the presence of God's universe, we know exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it. We are conscious of our God-given abilities, and we are using them. We see the effects of what we do, and we are glad. We love the life we are living, and we love those who share the universe with us. And we are conscious of being loved. Each day, each moment, each step is inspired by our conscious unity with the divine source of all good.
This source, Mind, gives us absolute assurance that the good we are experiencing never dies. Mind is Life, and there is no death. But if we have been struggling to make a harmonious existence out of a material sense of life, we may find our hopes crumbling, our aims defeated, our usefulness in doubt, our talents unappreciated, our thoughts finding little to love, and ourselves feeling very much alone. We are buried in mortal belief. But we can rise into Life.
In the history of the world there has been no moment more intensely dramatic than the morning when Mary Magdalene found the stone taken away from the sepulcher. Every individual who has ever hoped for a better life can understand how Mary must have felt as she, weeping, stooped down to look into the tomb and, as the Bible records, saw, where Jesus' body had been, two angels. When they asked her, "Why weepest thou?" she answered, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him"(John 20:13). At that moment Mary turned and saw Jesus, but she did not know that it was Jesus. She asked him to tell her where they had laid the body.
