Person-to-person Encounters

KURT WERNER

Isn't it gratifying to feel that others appreciate and love us, and we them? Where does this spontaneous feeling of warm satisfaction come from? It is the presence of the Christ, the divine Truth of all being, which we can recognize in others and which fills our thoughts with calmness, peace, and outgoing love.

When one senses the presence of divine Love, which happifies and satisfies, others feel it too and respond to it. This holds true for all person-to-person encounters—at home, at work, on the street, in the train, even while driving our car. Wherever we meet others, we can know the omnipresence of God, divine Love, with a feeling of confidence and security, and see the evidence of it.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy."^{Science and Health, pp. 476-477;}