Article January 10, 1976 Issue

"Look up, darling!"

ADELE NICHOLS

Looking up, as comprehended in Christian Science, does not mean lifted eyes gazing skyward with a heart yearning for deliverance by an unknown God. Christian Science unfolds a diviner sense, which originates in omnipresent Love, God, and embraces the Christ-idea representing Him.

This fact became evident to a Christian Scientist when, on becoming very ill, she was taken to a Christian Science nursing home for care. During a particularly distressing moment one of the attending nurses compassionately said, "Look up, darling!" What more positive direction could have been given whereby to come into communion with God and assimilate the Christly spirit of divine Love! This appeal awakened the Scientist to strive valiantly to look up mentally, as this is understood in Christian Science, to God, imperishable divine Love. God, Love, is man's eternal Life. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes: "'God is Love.' More than this we cannot ask, higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go." Science and Health, p. 6;

In prayerful humility and thankfulness, based on a spiritual premise, she made a persistent effort over a period of several weeks to unite her thoughts of existence with Christ, Truth. She prayed to see that God is the only creator, that He interprets His laws, the laws of Love, and manifests His omnipresence, and that those who look up to Him through the vision of scientific truth can see His laws in operation.

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