Editorial August 25, 1980 Issue

Support we always have

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

A shaky ladder. A shaky income, or understanding. A suspicion that our "ship" (whatever it may be) might soon go down. There are few of us who don't sometimes find ourselves in situations where we need a stronger sense of support. We like to feel that our aspirations are supported by our friends, that our husband or wife backs up what we are attempting to do in life.

A special and unique comprehension of what support really is can be pulled together and proved through the Science of Christ. This spiritual truth of support is the heart of the matter: divine Principle—the only origin of the cosmos—accompanies, coincides and coexists with, all that truly exists. In the reality of being there are no unsupported ideas, none blowing about at random, like feathers. Nothing real and good is unsustained or can collapse. "All real being represents God, and is in Him," Mary Baker Eddy asserts. "In this Science of being, man can no more relapse or collapse from perfection, than his divine Principle, or Father, can fall out of Himself into something below infinitude."^{ No and Yes, p. 26;}

We individualize this divine law and see it under-gird our own life when we grow in understanding of God as divine Principle. And even in doing this we are buttressed by divine Principle itself, expressed through the activity of the Christ in our thought. Whenever our reasoning starts with God, Principle, and His all-power, we feel the divine strength. But without a sense of what support really is we tread insecurely on the flimsy scaffolding of mortal belief. Perceptive study of the Bible together with Mrs. Eddy's writings gives us a solid certainty of God's power, His support—His constituting—of man and the universe. "The divine Mind supports the sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation,"^{ Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 511;} states our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.