Last week, while searching the Web for a translation of a German word, I came across a Facebook page on Schutzhund training. Not knowing what this was, I clicked on the page and saw a dozen people, similarly dressed, standing on steps to an academic building. It clearly wasn’t what I wanted so I clicked off and went on. Later, out of curiosity I wondered what Schutzhund was in German and so clicked back, and that’s when I saw them. By each person was a black German shepherd dog sitting perfectly to the side. I was surprised! They evidently blended in somewhat, but how did I miss seeing all those German shepherds the first time? Why were they completely invisible to me? Then I asked myself: What realities are right in front of me that I may not be recognizing?
Reality, in Christian Science, is understood to be all that is spiritual and when our thought is spiritualized, we feel Spirit’s tangible presence. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, explains it this way in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal” (p. 335).
The truth is that we are already pure and perfect, healthy and whole.
