Article October 6, 1945 Issue

How to Overcome Homesickness

MARGARET WEYMOUTH JACKSON

The student of Christian Science knows that wherever his duty or his orders take him he can never be absent from goodness and blessedness. He knows and has proved and demonstrated in some measure man's oneness with his Father-Mother God. Having once proved it, he can prove it again. He knows that homesickness should not be ignored, but handled. It is a mesmeric suggestion of limitation, a belief that only in certain places and with certain persons can one be at ease and comfortable. What a travesty upon the revealed truth of the ever-present love of God!

The Christian Scientist denies that man is dependent upon location for his happiness—that he can be dependent upon anything or anyone except God. The divine Mind can never be absent or limited. Divine Love, good, fills all space. Wherever man is, there is the complete expression of Love; there are health, harmony, holiness. Did not Jesus say, "The kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21)? And it is in the kingdom of heaven that the Christian Scientist expects to find home.

Whether on active duty in the Army or Navy, in a strange city, on some remote atoll, or flying through the stratosphere, he is in the presence of God. No contrivance, order, sending out, calling back, dictatorial decree, war, violence, or change, can separate us from God, and we know it. If the mesmeric suggestion is made that by some such means one has become separated from joy and peace, the Christian Scientist knows that such a belief must be vigorously denied and the presence and power of God affirmed. And with such denial and such affirmation comes the ineffable effulgence of divine Love, bringing with it untold comfort, joy, and peace.

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