"It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." These words from the Bible (Lam. 3:22, 23) are precious to those who are learning to know God in Christian Science. God's mercies are His tender provisions for the eternal preservation of His creation, enfolding man and the universe in His love.

The spiritually-minded know the everlasting love and care of the heavenly Father for His idea, man. God, divine Love, is constant, unvarying, eternal. Man is always the perfect expression of God, upright, pure, beautiful, and complete. We are freed from the condemnation of mistakes as we realize that in reality man never has gone astray from his state of perfection, that he is held in the Father's compassionate care, forever safe from all evil. God will always be the same unchanging Love; His mercies are new every morning.

The writer awoke one morning recently with a fresh sense of God's love and protection. As she studied the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, the thought came to her that the day was clean and unmarred. She saw that God had given her a new day to use in His service and that nothing could prevent it from being a perfect day of understanding and fruition. She knew that as her thinking conformed to the true idea of God and man as taught in Christian Science, as she acknowledged the freshness, purity, and strength of Spirit, every experience in that new day would evidence God, good.

It was a wonderful adventure; it was like cutting through the thicket of mortal mind suggestions with the sharp sword of Spirit, so immediate were the spiritual ideas which silenced the arguments of mortal mind. Suggestions that man expresses unlovely traits were dissipated before the realization that man in the likeness of God expresses only the qualities of divine Love. Unfinished problems were solved; it was as if the machinery of business had been oiled with a wonderful lubricant, so smoothly did the oil of consecration cause the work of a busy day to progress, manifesting the frictionless activity of Mind. The close of the day was found to be still new with the vigor of ever-active Mind, and the joyous sense of the constant care of divine Love brought forth a grateful "Thank You, Father."

Each new day is ours to make of it what we will. Shall it be a day full of material thinking, hurry, and confusion, or shall it be one of joy, peace, and order? It is possible to accomplish effortlessly the day's chores when thought is attuned to the wisdom of Mind. Even in a crowd we can commune with the Father, and humbly ask Him to direct our way.

False education suggests that a day begins, becomes wearisome, and ends in sleep, which is requisite to rest one for the morrow. Great is His faithfulness! Infinite Mind never grows weary, never sleeps. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (pp. 519, 520), "God rests in action." She continues: "No exhaustion follows the action of this Mind, according to the apprehension of divine Science. The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work." Man, the reflection of infinite Mind, forever expresses the eternal newness of that Mind in activity, strength, and progress.

When we replace in our consciousness the negative suggestions of dullness, weariness, or inertia with the true idea of God and man, no sense of heaviness can be carried forward, for we start anew with each victory. Mortal mind would have us believe that we do not have time during a busy day to handle every erroneous suggestion that arises. If not alert, we accept its argument, and error accumulates until we may carry about a weight of weariness and despondency.

When work piles up and confusion threatens, it is helpful to know that we need take only one step at a time. In performing the necessary tasks, we can express kindness, patience, and joy in our service to others. We can know that we are always in the presence of perfect Mind, God, and that God's ever-operative law of harmony adjusts everything that is not in accord with Principle. We can demonstrate that His mercies are new every morning, that His love and care inspire and strengthen us.

The inseparable oneness of God and man gives dominion to man. Material circumstances do not determine his existence. The understanding that man's being is established in infinite Mind enables us to demonstrate the harmony of true being. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says (p. 235): "In Christian Science, progress is demonstration, not doctrine. This Science is ameliorative and regenarative, delivering mankind from all error through the light and love of Truth." And farther on she says: "It touches mind to more spiritual issues, systematizes action, gives a keener sense of Truth and a stronger desire for it. Hungering and thirsting after a better life, we shall have it, and become Christian Scientists; learn God aright, and know something of the ideal man, the real man, harmonious and eternal."

God supplies us with all the good we need each new day, each new hour. We live in that eternally fresh day as we glimpse anew God's goodness. Then let us rejoice in the newness of eternal Love now.