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Achieving Good

From the January 1977 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Would you like to achieve something really good? Do something really worthwhile? Be of real use? Find some deeper satisfaction in the daily round of everyday living? Well, you can. Christian Science teaches that unlimited good is present to be achieved.

Whatever our longing or desire, we are taught in this Science to turn to the Bible and to the Christian Science textbook— Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy—to find inspiration, help, and guidance. In the same prayerful way that students of Christian Science find help and healing for various difficulties and ills, they look for and find encouragement and light in prayer to attain and fulfill longed-for achievements.

A good starting point on the road to achieving something worthy is to rejoice that it is possible. This will surely open the door to the spiritual insight we need in order to attain to and demonstrate good in our lives. God's creation is spiritual, complete, and perfect. All of good is already established. We need, therefore, to turn our thought to gaining an understanding of this, an understanding of God as infinite divine Mind and of man, who reflects this infinite divine Mind. That it is possible for us to experience and achieve all good, Mrs. Eddy has made abundantly clear. She writes: "St. Paul wrote, 'Rejoice in the Lord always.' And why not, since man's possibilities are infinite, bliss is eternal, and the consciousness thereof is here and now?" Miscellaneous Writings, p. 330;

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