Article November 5, 1979 ISSUE

Striving yet yielding

CLARE L. GATES

God is forever at hand, upholding us, assuring us of His unfailing goodness. Sometimes during a busy day, though, it's difficult not to become confused and begin thinking we've somehow lost God. Everything else can start seeming more real than He. Unless we're alert, we may drift into ungodlike beliefs and actions.

Through the study of Christian Science I've learned that we can never actually lose touch with our creator, God. Mrs. Eddy describes what it's like to feel God's presence. In her spiritual interpretation of the name "Japhet," one of Noah's sons, she brings out this feeling: "A type of spiritual peace, flowing from the understanding that God is the divine Principle of all existence, and that man is His idea, the child of His care." Science and Health, p. 589;

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