Have you ever stood on the shore of a lake in winter when the fog was rolling in and tried vainly to see something beyond the bleak and dreary scene before you? Though you can't see it through the fog, you still know there is life on the other side of the lake.
When the death of a loved relative occurred, my sense of life became confused and bleak. But Christian Science, affirming God to be ever-present Life and Love, and man to be inseparable from Love, offered a way out of this gloom. Facing the challenge, I turned to Christian Science for healing, and what follows is some of the inspirations that helped me.
Because material life seems so solid, the life of a loved one may appear to be no more than a physical presence to communicate with, to see, feel, love, and so on. But is that really all there is to life? No! Christ Jesus' example, particularly his resurrection from the grave, showed what life is. In Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy writes of Jesus: "Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life. Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love." Science and Health, p. 54.
