The tiny ray of light, shining through my bedroom window, made it appear as though a small piece of wallpaper had been torn away from the wall. I reached up toward the spot to see if the wallpaper really was torn and was relieved to see that it was only a thin shaft of sunlight on the dark blue wallpaper. As the light shone on my hand, it occurred to me that even if I put a thick object in front of the ray of light—even a thick brick wall!—it still wouldn't extinguish the light. The light would simply continue to shine on whatever was put in front of it. In fact, the only way I could really extinguish that ray of light would be to go directly to its source—the sun.
Christian Science teaches that God is our Father-Mother, the source of man's being. And man can never be cut off from his source. Mrs. Eddy explains the impossibility of man ever being separated from God when she writes in Science and Health: "Separated from man, who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man, divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is, there can be, no such division, for man is coexistent with God." Science and Health, pp. 477-478.
I saw these truths very clearly a few years ago when my husband and I were contemplating the adoption of a baby who we knew would be born in a few months' time.
