Article September 9, 1950 Issue

TRUE COMPANIONSHIP

VIRGINIA DORSEY WHITAKER

MEN have always sought for happiness. Christian Science teaches that happiness is our privilege and our right, for God has promised that He will not withhold any good thing "from them that walk uprightly." If, then, our present sense of companionship and happiness does not come up to our expectation, let us turn wholeheartedly to the Father for His aid in this as in all other problems. Let us ponder deeply the meaning of the significant passage in Mary Baker Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1902, where she gives us a working plan for happiness in these words (p. 17): "Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can."

And when we are satisfied with the companionship of the Father-Mother God, then the understanding of true companionship becomes manifest in our experience in terms of God's outlining. When we understand that as God's perfect child we have all right companionship here and now and that nothing can keep us from giving and receiving the evidences of His love, this understanding is expressed in affection, tenderness, compassion, and unselfed love in our daily lives.

We must realize that in our true being we are immortal and always aware of our loving relationship to our Father-Mother God. This realization becomes manifest in the satisfying of all human cravings for companionship. In that is all possible peace and comfort, all joy. For God is Love—Love which encompasses and enfolds us so constantly and completely that there is no need of longing.

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