The fact that we cannot go to all of the children in our world, give them each a hug, find out and meet the individual need, should not persuade us that our loving concern and prayer are not going to bring healing. The prayer that unites with omnipotent Love is always effective.
How do we do this? As we prayerfully consider that man is God's spiritual expression, not a material entity, we progressively realize the blessing of God's eternal gift to man—dominion over all the earth. Man is God's expression because he is God's own creation, the outcome of God's very being. The first line of the Lord's Prayer, the prayer Jesus taught his followers to pray, affirms our relationship to God, the one Father-Mother. When we acknowledge God to be our creator, Spirit our origin, we are properly identifying ourselves as God's spiritual man, His reflection. And one definition of identify is "to conceive as united." In the deepest sense, we are ever at one with God.
In a paragraph in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures bearing the marginal heading "Man's entity spiritual," Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, writes: "God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would be a nonentity, or Mind unexpressed. He would be without a witness or proof of His own nature. Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot be lost nor separated from its divine Principle."Science and Health, p. 303.
