Article December 28, 1974 Issue

Ever-fresh Opportunities

BETTY SPRUILL GILLINGHAM

Occasionally this thought comes to many of us: "If only I could live my life again." We think of what we'd do better the second time—be more kind, loving, friendly, forgiving to everyone.

But one doesn't need to live his life again. All he needs to do, really, is just keep on living it now, but from a better basis. Nothing is stopping us from being kind, friendly, thoughtful, loving, and forgiving right now, right where we are.

Man is the spiritual reflection of God, the very expression of His being, coexistent with Him. He reflects God gloriously and without interruption, for God alone is his Life. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "God is at once the centre and circumference of being."^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 203-204;} When we realize this, we can see that we need never, even for an instant, feel separated from our divine source. Every moment provides us with fresh opportunities for reflecting Godlike qualities.