The real activity of every individual is living the Christ. Whatever our human occupation may be, we shall find ourselves happy and successful when we fulfill this true mission, when we express the Christly qualities that constitute our real identity.
Several years ago while the writer was serving as a Christian Science nurse, she was healed of a painful back condition. While the healing was taking place, three outstanding lessons were learned.
First, this nurse recognized the need for more consecrated individual study of the Bible, the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, and Mrs. Eddy's other writings. She realized that hours of reading to others was not a substitute for individual communion with God. She resolved to do more consistent prayerful, metaphysical work, not just to make the human sense of life more comfortable or affluent but to awaken to the real spiritual universe, which God created in the beginning and which is right here now.
