Anyone who has listened to a radio talk-back session soon learns that there are many people living either alone or in a family circle who feel a lack of fulfillment. An understanding of Christian Science can eliminate this sense of incompleteness and restore life's purpose and enjoyment.
In this Science we learn that each one's identity is, in reality, the expression of God, divine Mind. We learn to transfer our trust from material possessions, personal attachments, and circumstances to the caring control of divine Love. We find self-completeness in God as the reflection of infinite Love itself.
Does this mean giving up good things or rejecting those we love? On the contrary, when we yield faith in the human to understanding of the divine, we find that no permanent good is lost. Why? Because matter presents only a limited concept of the real substance of good, and personality an ephemeral illusion of man's eternal identity. According to the second chapter of Genesis, both matter and personality are associated with the dream that overtook Adam. Sooner or later dreams come to an end. But spiritual reality remains intact forever. Mrs. Eddy explains, "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness." Science and Health, p. 264; The marginal heading beside this passage is "Self-completeness."
