"The nurse should be cheerful, orderly, punctual, patient, full of faith,—receptive to Truth and Love," Science and Health, p. 395. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health. Does this description apply only to those who have chosen nursing as a profession? Couldn't each of us be considered the nurse caring for the patient we call "me"?
And how are we to nurse this patient? We begin with the radically different view Christian Science shows us—that sickness and decrepitude are not inescapable; actually they are not facts of life at all. True life is the reflection of the Life that is God, in whose image man is made. Man is our true identity; and man's life is as eternal, indestructible, and undegenerating as is Life, God, his creator.
The Bible corroborates this spiritual fact. Through the illumination that Christian Science throws upon the Scriptures we can rise up in protest against the false, material view of life and claim our real spiritual being as God's idea, man. Through the regeneration and purification that naturally result as we make honest efforts to live on a spiritual basis, we find physical limitations beginning to drop away. Our lives become —and remain—vigorous, useful, and progressive. As the Bible tells us, "Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Deut. 34:7.
