Article January 24, 1970 Issue

Life Is Immortal—Now!

LAWRENCE R. WOOD

Recently a popular magazine featured a colorful full-page photograph of a human heart held in the gloved hand of a surgeon. It was about to be transplanted to the chest cavity of a patient in an attempt to save or prolong his life.

Considering this picture, I observed that there was no life in the heart itself. It was but a red and mindless mass of inanimate matter. How then, I thought, could this handful of flesh give or add something it did not have? The answer had to be that life is something independent of matter, that real life is spiritually mental, not contained in the organs of a mortal body.

This brought to mind a statement by Mrs. Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "We all must learn that Life is God."^{Science and Health, p. 496;} Suddenly, and as never before, the deeper meaning of this line seemed to light up my consciousness to see that the life we are living at this very moment is divine, God-given and God-supported. We are in the presence of God right now. We can be as aware of it as we are of our present existence. Its apparent material accompaniments are not really any part of Life itself. Life governs its own functions and faculties through Mind, not matter. Life is God, the very substance and totality of man's existence.