Article November 6, 1978 Issue

Expressing inexhaustible divine energy

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

Vitamins, exercise, or diet will not of themselves make us more energetic. If they seem to, this is simply the result of our belief. But awareness of our spiritual selfhood as God's idea gives us lasting strength.

True vitality is not something we have to get. It is an exhaustless spiritual quality that each of us, in reality, reflects at this moment. Divine Life, the creator and sustaining force of the universe, cannot possibly experience fatigue, nor can His image, man.

Someone once wrote: "On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hospitable courtesy, I went to her peculiarly fatigued. I came away in a state of exhilaration and energy that made me feel I could have walked any conceivable distance. I have met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with this experience repeated."^{See Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press, p. 36;}