Have you ever thought about God as the author of your life? Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Those instructed in Christian Science have reached the glorious perception that God is the only author of man” (p. 29).
Think of the implications of that wonderful idea! If God is the only Life, the only author of us, and total, absolute good, then we, as the reflection of God, must be totally good. Everything God is, we express, because we are His expression, or image. Our identity is as perfect as the divine source of our identity. Since God, Spirit, is the author of our spiritual selfhood, we are created and continuously maintained as harmonious, whole, and perfect because God knows only perfection.
In actuality we have no birth and no human parentage because our origin is in God, our true Father and Mother. We have no unattractive personality traits because God knows no personalities, but only lovely, spiritual individualities. Because God is our author, our creator, what He knows of our spiritual identity stands alone. There are no other competing narratives about us. Our identity is never determined by DNA, random circumstances, human parents, a spouse, or anyone else, but only by God, divine intelligence.
