Most of us expect to make progress during this year. But through Christian Science we have begun to see the remarkable point that the good we are striving for, the good we anticipate achieving, is real now. It is already created. It is part of that which exists in great richness and variety—because God exists.
Prayer brings us into consciousness of an unlimited rightness and order that is beyond anything known by a materialistic sense of selfhood, yet which at the same time is marvelously concrete. It is an entire, living excellence, not just an ideal— that is, it has all the dimension and substance and completeness and activity we customarily think of as characteristic of something "real" but none of the imperfection.
This is the discovery of the real universe—God's universe— and of the actual Life and individuality of man. Could there be any stronger incentive for striving or any better reason for being persuaded of the inevitability of progress in our daily lives?
