Last spring my family helped my mother move from her home into a senior residence. We rented a large cube van, and the move went off without a hitch. However, the next day my husband noticed that one of his rings, a gold family heirloom bearing his ancestral crest, was missing. This ring had been bequeathed to him by his father, who had passed several months earlier, and my husband had had the ring properly resized when he’d received it. He was devastated it was gone—and I felt guilty because he seemed to have lost it while helping my family.
The first comforting thought that came to me, which I shared with my husband, was that the ring was a symbol of God’s love for him. And since divine Love is always present and active, the love the ring represented could never be lost. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul” (p. 269).
Since divine Love is always present and active, the love the ring represented could never be lost.
