From where I viewed it as I drove by-several times a week on my way to our | Christian Science Reading Room, I could see that it was a lovely house. Yet the grounds were unkempt, and I wondered why. Then it became obvious to me after a time that no one lived there. The sign "Sold" appeared one day and my hopes rose. Now the house would be properly maintained, I thought. But instead workmen started to tear it down.
That day I felt a bit saddened as I thought about the destruction of the little white house. Almost immediately, in response to my sadness, words from the twenty-third Psalm came to mind. The psalm had been included in that week's Bible Lesson (outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly) on the subject of "Love." From verse 6: "And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."
Why, of course, I reasoned, the material structure called a house is here today to be replaced tomorrow when it has served its purpose. But this is not so with the house, or consciousness, of God, where we exist in perfect safety, in the permanent dwelling of His love.
