Article February 28, 1970 Issue

"The coloring glory of perpetual bloom"

EVELYN M. PINNELL

Every minute of every day a man or woman is reaching retirement age. Some anticipate this moment with joy, others with apprehension. But all may find rich compensation in this change in their pattern of activity if they seek to understand and use the divine fact, revealed through Christianity and Christian Science, that man is the image and likeness of God, the eternal unfolding of immortal being, in which loneliness and decreasing vigor have no place.

In the Preface to her Miscellaneous Writings, Mrs. Eddy writes, "There is an old age of the heart, and a youth that never grows old." She adds, "The fleeting freshness of youth, however, is not the evergreen of Soul; the coloring glory of perpetual bloom; the spiritual glow and grandeur of a consecrated life wherein dwelleth peace, sacred and sincere in trial or in triumph."^{Mis., pp. ix, x;}

Here indeed is a statement to encourage anyone mourning the departure of youth. The "fleeting freshness" here referred to, like the deterioration supposed to follow, is but a state of unreal mortal consciousness to be exchanged for the "glory of perpetual bloom" and grandeur of true being. As we seek to learn more of the qualities of Soul through study and prayer and to practice such qualities in daily life, we will become aware in increasing measure of the unending glory of divine unfoldment.

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