Article October 16, 1978 Issue

The scientific answer to loneliness

DIANE Y. CONGER

At one time I felt deeply lonely. Even though I was surrounded by friends and family and prayed for more happiness, I continued feeling lonely and unloved.

If our prayers are not answered, we may be misunderstanding the nature of effective prayer. Christian Science shows us that such prayer is based on an understanding of God's perfection and of His loving government of man, who reflects the divine nature. Though I didn't recognize it at the time, I was basing my prayer on the false premise that I was a lonely mortal who had to become an unlonely mortal. I needed to base my prayer on a foundation of spiritual knowing.

One day, as I was thinking about man's relationship to God, I did just that. I realized that because God made man in His image, the only way I could be lonely would be for God to be lonely and for me to reflect His loneliness. But God could not be lonely, because He is Love itself, the source of the fullness and harmony of being. Moreover, He is Mind, the source of all true consciousness. I realized that as God's spiritual likeness I reflected not only the fullness of Love but the consciousness of it.

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