Article February 9, 1987 Issue

Our spirituality to the rescue

Is spirituality some intangible religious goal? Or is it a practical and effective answer to human hardships?

Joy Dell

A Man I know was without a job. He'd resigned from his former position, but the resignation had been forced. This came early in what he'd hoped would be a promising career in a large industry, and the temptation to feel inadequate, guilty, and frustrated was strong. Yet, as a student of Christian Science, this man knew he must resist that temptation.

He reached out to God, Spirit, in prayer and soon could see that instead of wrestling with a sense of personal failure he had to walk away mentally from a mortal, material sense of life.

But how could he do that? At first it was difficult to see the way; yet as he continued to pray it became clearer to him that God, divine Love, is ever present. He had often read in the Bible that man is made in the image of God, so he concluded that the possibility for him to prove that he was actually God's spiritual image, or reflection, was also ever present.

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