HUMAN LIFE IS ALWAYS CHANGING. Our perceptions, our experiences, don't stand still. Things we depended on don't satisfy like they used to. Sometimes material health remedies become increasingly suspect, and favorite pastimes can begin to feel empty. Somehow there's a sense that we can't quite go back to "the way it was." It's like a chapter of life has come to an end. But the good news is this: When we're ready for a bigger perception of things, that old chapter is over.
When a theatrical show ends, the curtain closes. The cast comes out front to take a bow, while the theatre set drops out of sight. The show was just a staged portrayal of life—not the real thing. The same could be said about the material sense of life. With our source in God, the divine Mind, we find that what's ultimately true about each one of us is not material, but spiritual—found in Mind. Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "What is termed material sense can report only a mortal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can bear witness only to Truth" (Science and Health, p. 298).
When we begin to see the truth of our identity as entirely spiritual, we see that matter never related to anything. Real life is not an experience of physical conditions whereby we make our assessments based on seeing, hearing, and feeling matter. Our purpose, health, joy, brotherhood, sisterhood are spiritual in nature. All these aspects of life relate to the expression of God's unlimited, divine qualities.
