Some time ago there was an interesting picture on the cover of a magazine. It was a photograph of the world taken by one of the astronauts during his descent to earth. This photograph gave one a new perspective that seemed to make it much easier to "work for the world." Many of us have seen photographs of the earth taken by astronauts. You see, those astronauts, instead of feeling like a helpless speck inside a globe, saw the world as the speck, and themselves as part of a larger universe.
Our concept of anything and anyone depends on where we view them from. It's no use starting inside a problem. We must start with the allness of God. His all-power and all-presence are the stimulus and condition of correct reasoning.
To work for the world, we need the widest possible perspective. Christ Jesus said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33; His constant references to eternal life showed the infinite, universal nature of his perspective. Knowing that our work expresses God— universal, divine Mind—we can be confident that it will have a healing effect. Jesus knew that God couldn't be limited or be contained inside anything material. Speaking of God to a group of skeptics in Jerusalem whose thought was closed to spiritual possibilities, he told them, "Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape." 5:37; But through understanding God as divine Love we can begin to see the allness and everywhereness of God clearly. With her great breadth of vision Mrs. Eddy writes, "The everlasting I am is not bounded nor compressed within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can He be understood aright through mortal concepts." And on the same page she adds, "No form nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love." Science and Health, p. 256;
