Editorial May 26, 1980 Issue

Meeting the claim of "nothing happening"

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

This is the absolute truth of existence: Man and the universe are even now manifested as the effect necessary for the full being of the one cause—eternal Principle. All that needs to happen, then, has already happened—is always happening, outside time and in eternity. Being is endless unfoldment.

But to human sense, always incompletely seeing the perfect creation of God (if at all), there's always something that has yet to happen. We catch ourselves saying, "I've prayed, turned to divine Truth, denied erroneous beliefs about God and man." Then adding wistfully, "But nothing's happened." Christian Science leads our limited sense of things to yield to spiritual vision and so see what God has already done.

Something fundamental needs to happen, and can, within us. We can make this major shift: accepting the life that comes from God, disbelieving the life that seems to come from and be in matter. When we truly make this kind of move, then inevitably something happens. Christ Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "Stretch forth thine hand"; Jesus' way, maybe, of making the man face the fact that something had to happen with him. In the event, "he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other."^{ Matt. 12:13;}

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