Article August 8, 1959 Issue

COMPLETENESS AND FULFILLMENT

KATHLEEN O'CONNOR

The allness of God, Spirit, is reflected in the wholeness and completeness of man, His spiritual image and likeness. In the universe of God's creating—and there is in reality no other universe—everything necessary to man's happiness is found in all its perfection. God, being both Father and Mother, is necessarily reflected by individual man in both masculine and feminine aspects, which in their true nature are purely spiritual. Thus the real, spiritual man exists now and forever at the standpoint of completeness and fulfillment.

However, these fundamental facts of Christian Science often appear to be reversed in human experience. Human education, based on a material sense of life, has promulgated the belief that marriage is a prerequisite for the manifestation of completeness and fulfillment; that some natures, in their journey from sense to Soul, need the discipline of marriage and family life to develop the unselfed love and service that these experiences entail.

All this is very right and natural in the human concept, and Christian Science recognizes the blessings which may ensue from the human institution of marriage with its riches of home and family life. But what of those who have not found this material aspect of fulfillment and are unsatisfied with their present status? Are they to go through life with a sense of incompleteness and frustration? Is their natural desire for companionship to remain unsatisfied, with the resultant feeling of deprivation and loss? Christian Science offers the only truly satisfying solution to this problem.

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