Article June 9, 1951 Issue

RETIREMENT—THEN WHAT?

RUTH J. EDWARDS

Perhaps few people look forward with pleasure to that specified time when they must retire from the employment in which they have long been engaged. To many it means that the have reached an advanced age and are accounted as not being capable of doing such good work as the once did. He who approaches this experience often becomes troubled and anxious as he finds himself counting the years remaining in which he may be permitted to work at his profession. When the truth regarding God and man, as taught in Christian Science, is applied to the problem, it clears the mist of mortal thinking and reveals that the man of God's creating is ever active, ever employed.

Christian Science also teaches that this real man is one with God, as His idea, one with all good, and that this good is constant, instant, and abundant. This truth destroys the fear of lack and enables us to listen for the spiritual ideas that guide us to the right solution of our problem of employment and place. We must awaken through Science to the truth that man expresses the purity of Mind and the loveliness of Love, in order that we may experience the abundance, activity, and peace of a fruitful life.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 246) Mary Baker Eddy says: "Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness." Viewing man from this standpoint, we conclude that Life, being God, does not consist of years; nor does man, reflecting God, know time or age, inability, inactivity, or decay. The real man lives in eternity. What a burden is lifted when age is seen as false belief, thus powerless, and we abide in the true consciousness that man lives and loves eternally.

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