Article July 2, 1979 Issue

The clear view

BERYL D. STELLE

One day as I was looking out the window of my tenth-floor office, I was aware of a slow-moving cloud obscuring the clear view. Buildings and trees disappeared as the cloud moved from north to south. Even an entire twenty-story building was blotted out.

Similarly, the cloud of physical sense—which presents the world and its inhabitants as material, with sickness and imperfection shouting at everyone from every direction—claims to blot God completely out of the picture. But this is an impossibility. God is All—all Mind, Spirit, Life, Love—we learn in Christian Science. His goodness is reflected every moment as the substance of everything real. Through prayer we can remove the cloud of material sense that attempts to hide this truth of being. We can work constantly on this and maintain a clear view of God's spiritual man and universe.

God is constantly imparting this view to us—the perception that there is but one creator, Spirit, sending forth only good; that man and the universe, being spiritual, are sustained by the power of divine Love. The understanding that we are God's children disperses the cloud of materiality with all its fears and troubles.

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