Editorial October 3, 1983 Issue

Attaining "what we most need"

CAROLYN B. SWAN

Many find that various needs clamor for priority in their lives. If we were to take a random poll today, some would likely say that they desperately need employment or income. Others might name the healing of sickness as their prime requisite. Still others might put first a home, a family, or companionship. And others yet might cry out for justice or equity.

Mrs. Eddy was faced at various times with each of these needs. Because through such experiences she grew to understand the illimitability of deific provision and power, she could write in Science and Health, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."^{Science and Health, p. 494.} Through the Science Mrs. Eddy discovered—Christian Science—God has met the needs of many.

Yet if we were to study the whole of her writings, we would readily see that satisfying human needs is really incidental to the goal of this Science—to demonstrate divine Truth, perfect Life, infinite Love. Because the omnipresence of God, good, precludes any absence of good, we can be saved, delivered, from all sense of lack. Since God, total good, is ever present, we can prove that each suggestion of lack is without foundation in fact. We may then say— and see—that our human need is met. But, actually, even the belief in need vanishes when Principle, God, is understood and demonstrated.

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