Article August 10, 1974 Issue

Good Is Now

JEANNE STEELY LAITNER

God's infinite goodness is eternally present and real. How much are we recognizing and accepting of God's goodness at the present moment? Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "We own no past, no future, we possess only now. If the reliable now is carelessly lost in speaking or in acting, it comes not back again." And she adds: "Faith in divine Love supplies the ever-present help and now, and gives the power to 'act in the living present.'"^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 12;}

God is omnipresent. In His eternal presence there is no past or future. There is only now. We consciously dwell in the nowness of His goodness and presence as we eliminate mortal thinking, which erroneously believes in a present of both good and evil and in a past and future time sequence. The limited view held by mortal mind is that a person's present status is determined by his past history and that his future is highly uncertain. The understanding of God as the creator of man and of man's real being made in His image and likeness is the healing answer to the burden of a mortal past or an unknown mortal future.

Man, the image and likeness of God, is eternally upright and perfect. He possesses dominion and joy; he reflects intelligence and acts in the nowness, the hereness, the presence of God. The true being of every individual is right now the offspring of God. Understanding and accepting man's oneness with God as His idea aligns thought with the infinite capacities of good, which God is ever bestowing upon the man of His creating.

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