Article February 28, 1983 Issue

Recognizing fulfillment

MARTHA REILLY

A few years ago I was working hard to accomplish many things. I had a demanding job, which I wanted out of; was trying to finish school, so that leaving the job would be possible; and had an active social life. During a very exhausting week it began to dawn on me that fulfillment is built into the true, spiritual nature of things. We do, however, have to accept God and His inspiration.

During this time I thought a lot about the fact that the real man's nature and identity are forever intact. His origin is divine always, and only requires claiming. Mrs. Eddy explains in Miscellaneous Writings: "To reach the summit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect ways and means, the material sense must be controlled by the higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned, while 'we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.' "^{Mis., p. 66.}

It requires honesty to question the selfhood we are accepting. Self-condemnation and morbid self-examination have to give way to a positive identifying of oneself as the likeness of Spirit, God, and therefore at one with what is spiritually true and at hand. A hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal contains this thought:

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