The remark "Too good to be true!" epitomizes the cynical feeling that in human life good is sadly lacking. But Christian Science teaches exactly the opposite. It shows us that since God is good and infinite, good itself must be unlimited and available to all.

Here is a significant point that needs our attention. To experience good in every aspect of our lives, we must first be convinced of its infinitude, and then claim it for ourselves as God's spiritual ideas. We can do so, knowing that we are not thereby depriving others, since there is abundance for all. Isaiah's invitation says, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters." ^{Isa. 55:1;} When we understand the allness and goodness of God, instead of saying, "Too good to be true," we can say, "Good enough to be true."

Mrs. Eddy tells us, "Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God." ^{Science and Health, p. 228;} Good, being God, is therefore omnipotent, and if we are constantly fearing the lack of it, or expecting evil instead of it, we are not honoring God. This conclusion should arouse us to examine our thinking, for who would wish to dishonor God?

But, someone may say, the world about us is full of evil. From a human viewpoint alone, certainly this is true. One has only to glance at the front page of almost any daily newspaper to be aware of discord and wrong. These are human facts. But how do we deal with them? We have to know that they cannot be real because God never created them. "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," ^{Gen. 1:31;} we read in Genesis. And in the Gospel of John, "Without him was not any thing made that was made." ^{John 1:3;} The discordant world we see around us is not the real world, not the universe of God's creating. In Revelation, John tells us of "a new heaven and a new earth," in which all pain and sorrow have "passed away." ^{Rev. 21:1;}

To Mrs. Eddy was revealed the divine fact that this perfect, spiritual universe is the only real universe, that the one we seem to see and know is a counterfeit, having no more reality than a dream. She discovered the Science back of Christ Jesus' words and works, the truth he proved. Those who feel let down by all material methods of healing can have the assurance, through Christian Science, that good is universal, and can be experienced by them now to the extent that they are willing and ready to acknowledge the goodness and allness of God.

Many years ago I had an experience that convinced me of the importance of aligning thought with good. I was going by train to stay with a relative. Local information made it clear that I must go to a London terminus and change trains there. I carefully chose a train that would make a suitable connection. But on reaching the station I was told that this train was half an hour late, and that only by taking a slower one then in the station would there be any possibility of catching the London train.

I therefore got on the slow train, but as it stopped at one small place after another, it soon became obvious that I would never arrive at the terminus in time. At first my thought was obsessed with annoyance at the inefficiency of the rail services, and with worry that the relative meeting me at the other end would have to waste time waiting for me.

Then I pulled myself up sharply and began to turn away from the frustrating material evidence and dwell instead on spiritual reality, where all is harmony now and God's laws govern the movements of all His creation. I became absorbed in these thoughts until we arrived at a large junction en route. At this point, for no apparent reason whatever, I was impelled to get up and ask the only other occupant of the car, a man in railway uniform, whether I could reach my destination by getting out there.

"Oh, yes," he said. "Change trains here, and it's the next stop." Immediately I got out. A porter shouldered my baggage and walked me briskly to the next platform, where he told me that the train just in was from London, the very one I had intended to catch! I did not have to go there at all.

Laughing together at the sheer simplicity and spontaneity of this demonstration of good, the relative meeting me and I rejoiced in this proof of God's law of harmony controlling human affairs. Though the experience was over twenty years ago, it has never ceased to help me heed Mrs. Eddy's wise admonition, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts." ^{Science and Health, p. 261;}

How can we ever "overcome evil with good," ^{Rom. 12:21;} as Paul enjoins us, if we aren't confident that good is omnipotent? We need to strive in all our ways to acknowledge that it is, and then we can echo Mrs. Eddy's words " 'Good is my God, and my God is good' " ^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 206.} and render them practical in our everyday lives.