Article December 13, 1982 Issue

The star still shines

BETTY REISS

God is constantly communicating to man. This is the spiritual fact. But we do not always hear Him, receive His guidance, or feel His presence, because we may not be listening in the right way. We may then feel isolated—strugglers in mortality—cut off from the source of goodness and joy. When we do begin to listen to His divine message of love and immortality, we wake up to find ourselves healed, blessed, supplied, companioned, loved. These are some of the forms God's goodness takes.

God's message is called, in the Scriptures, the Christ. The Bible indicates how this light of Truth has come to mankind through the ages in the form appreciable by the particular age and conforming to the people's need and readiness to receive it. This influence of the divine in and on human consciousness teaches us that we are not trapped in the dream of human history. The Christ tells us of the presence of God's kingdom, spiritual reality. It comforts. It heals.

As a new student of Christian Science, I was deeply interested in this wonderful message, the Christ, and began to list all the definitions of it from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. After covering both sides of a sheet of paper, I saw how inexhaustible this understanding was and realized that it would ultimately shatter the dream of mortality with an awakening to eternal life in God's kingdom. The Christ, in fact, would be the true essence of our sonship with God.

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