Article December 19, 1983 Issue

A Christmas story: Love's ever-presence

MARCIA A. SPAHR

Can Christian Science heal someone who feels separated from joy and love at Christmastime? It can, because of the spiritual view it gives of Christmas. In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mrs. Eddy speaks of Christmas as "the birth of Truth, the dawn of divine Love breaking upon the gloom of matter and evil with the glory of infinite being."^{Miscellany, p. 262.}

A young woman experienced something of this dawning of divine Love one year. Just before Christmas Eve she was abruptly told by a friend of hers that she was no longer invited to spend Christmas with the friend's family, as plans had changed at the last minute. The young woman was quite upset; it was too late in the day to make other plans, and it seemed as if she would have to spend Christmas Eve alone.

Thoughts of dread and self-pity threatened to overwhelm her, and tears of frustration started running down her cheeks. She became aware that she needed to pray for herself if a sense of peace was to be found. So, although it was not easy, she began rejecting every thought of self-pity as not coming from an all-loving God and replacing these thoughts with ones of God's goodness and ever-presence.

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