Article August 29, 1983 Issue

The always present fact: no loss!

ELIZABETH GLASS BARLOW

Lost!

What a frightening ring this word has for most people. Sometimes we lose things, and perhaps those we hold most dear wander off or are taken away. It's comforting to think, then, of Christ Jesus' story of the prodigal son, told so beautifully in the Bible. The words of the prodigal's father reverse our feeling of having lost what is dear to us with the great joy of knowing that in God, all is found: "This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found." See Luke 15: 11–24.

Christian Science enables today's thinker to challenge this loss concept and to let an expectant-of-good approach color each advancing stage of our living. Our memory lost? Not at all, when we realize that each thought that issues from God, the one Mind, is present not absent, is precise, not scattered and wandering. Can intelligence fade—when intelligence is immortal? There is no mortal mind to be absent-minded, to drift away from the always present divine Mind. God holds each of His ideas safe from harm.

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