The Psalmist said in joyous recognition of his unity with God (Ps. 40:7,8), "Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."

To come to God in the spirit of belonging to Him and of knowing that He is the source of our true consciouness—that He does everything with us and for us—is to taste of pure spiritual happiness. Because we are His, because in our true being we reflect the activity of divine Love, we can say, "In the book of Life, in the heart of God, divine Principle, in the reality of pure being, it is written of me and of each one that we delight to do God's will."

It is natural and easy for God's child to reflect God. We must look to God alone for perfection; then we shall see it reflected in man. In God, our parent Mind, we find the motive power of our existence, our intelligence, health, peace, strength, activity—our full and complete awareness of good. From God alone we derive our true conscious existence.

As this recognition of man's relationship to God appears, the false belief in human will, in a personal life and mind of one's own apart from God, must destroy itself. How clearly Jesus saw this when he said (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." There is great joy in yielding to God's will, in letting God's will be done in us.

How completely our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, surrendered self to do God's will. How often her own praying must have been like the Master's. She writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 33), "When the human element in him struggled with the divine, our great Teacher said: 'Not my will, but Thine, be done!'—that is, Let not the flesh, but the Spirit, be represented in me." Through her willingness to give up all human will and desire she was able to be a clear transparency for the Comforter to reach mankind. In the darkest hours she found the Christ.

Mrs. Eddy speaks of this appearing in her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection" as follows (p.23): "Thus it was when the moment arrived of the heart's bridal to more spiritual existence. When the door opened, I was waiting and watching; and, lo, the bridegroom came! The character of the Christ was illuminated by the midnight torches of Spirit. My heart knew its Redeemer."

Truly man is attracted naturally to the things of God, to His goodness, wisdom, love, and law. As we discern this we gladly give up the belief that the fleshly, personal sense of life can be actual or can have any intelligence. Letting Spirit be all to us, we find that a happier, more secure sense of life is ours, and our human experiences are increasingly harmonious. Knowing what man really is as the expression of God's being is the best antidote to the belief in what man is not—a sick, sinful mortal—the counterfeit of our real being.

I had an experience of healing that impressed' these truths on my consciousness indelibly. It was in the early days of my study of Christian Science, and I still seemed to be struggling with ill-health. Leading a very strenuous life and feeling heavily burdened, I suffered much from heart trouble and other ills. One day, when visiting a nearby city on business, I was so exhausted and in so much pain that I decided to call on a friend who was a practitioner for help. It was necessary to climb a long flight of stairs to reach the practitioner's office, and by the time I arrived, I felt very ill. Seeing my condition, the friend said compassionately, "You need help at once; you need a treatment." I gratefully assented.

I sat by a window, very still, and reached out with all my heart to God. The first two lines of a verse of a hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal came to my thought (No. 324):

I have come to see that this is all God ever requires: the prayer, "Lo,... I delight to do thy will, O my God," and the sweet, utter yielding to what one really is, even the spiritual child of God. He claims His own. From that time of tender acceptance I have felt that the only thing that really matters is to know that man belongs entirely to God and that God does what He wills with His own.

I made them my sincere and earnest prayer.

A few minutes later the practitioner opened the Christian Science Hymnal and started to read aloud the same hymn:

We both felt on holy ground. Very few words were spoken. The sweet awareness of the presence of divine Love was with us. I was perfectly free and went on my way rejoicing.

I have learned many happy lessons from this experience. I had not asked for freedom from pain, from the sense of lack and burden of false responsibility, but had welcomed the angel message from God,

When spiritual awakening comes to our hearts—as it will sooner or later to every heart—there always comes the call to do God's will. Let us say gladly, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."