One week in the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Spirit,” there was a passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that I’ve probably read hundreds of times. It says: “Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual,—they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite,—in order that sin and mortality may be put off.
“This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 265).
Suddenly, I saw that in a whole new way. Here’s my thought:
