I know someone with a license plate that reads AWSWEL (All's Well). He said it is a constant reminder to him and maybe to others who decipher it, that right then and there, all really is well. One might feel that his approach to life is naive; that if we just look around at the world with all its problems and complexities—war, crime, hunger, lack, disease—it's evident that all is not well. Certainly, if one is seeing things as the world generally sees them, from a materially based, mortal viewpoint, this would seem a correct conclusion.
But I know this individual. He is a Christian Scientist. As such he strives to distinguish between what the material senses are telling him and what Christian Science reveals of God and His spiritual universe. Through this Science he is learning to exercise spiritual perception, and yet not to close his eyes to troubles or to ignore them. He does not claim that all is well simply through having a positive attitude. Rather, he explains that we need to realize daily the truth of this powerful and radical statement—understand that it's the absolute fact of creation because all that God made is good—in order to bring to light, in our own consciousness, what is going on spiritually here and now.
So, is it being said here that things aren't as bad as they seem? What about the times when it's evident that things just aren't wonderful? Are we simply to say, "Oh well, all's well; this really isn't true about God and His perfect creation," and then ignore the troubles we're facing? No. We need to see the challenge for what it is and isn't. Since it does not express what is everlastingly true, eternally good, forever pure and perfect, it is not from God. Nor is it any part of God's creation—the only creation there is. Therefore, it couldn't possibly be true or real according to divine Science.
