The acute grief which we feel under certain circumstances is aptly described as a broken heart. But however great the weight of sorrow that seems to crush us, we are able to rise above it when through spiritual sense we gain an understanding of God, our heavenly Father, divine Love, who enfolds all in His tender care and would not have any of us suffer.
Through spiritual understanding we learn that the circumstances which cause us such suffering are due to a misunderstanding of God and His spiritual creation that is corrected by the Christ, the true idea of God. The real man is always the unvarying reflection of divine Love and is conscious only of perfect spiritual being. No catastrophe, no separation, no sudden shock, no death, can enter into man's true being. The tranquillity of ever-unfolding good alone is his.
We can bring this ultimatum of good into our human experience as we identify ourselves and others with spiritual being and not with a false sense of material existence. It is the Christ, Truth, which lifts us out of the darkness of our heartbreaks into the light and joy of reality. The realization of the nature of divine Love, God, and of man's true relationship to Him finds expression in loving service to others; and the sense of loss is dissolved in the knowledge of the oneness of spiritual being. The comfort of divine Love is always ours as we subdue material sense with spiritual sense and turn thought from the contemplation of personal distress to the impersonal radiation of love for others.
