Article June 8, 1987 Issue

Do you feel isolated?

The impulse to melt the cold barriers between us and others comes from infinite Love. Who could resist its warm embrace?

Gladys C. Girard

One Wednesday evening when I was attending the testimony meeting in our little Christian Science Society, a newcomer sat in front of me. When I spoke to her at the close of the service, she burst into tears and said she had prayed that someone would speak to her. She felt alone, isolated, and afraid.

There are many who feel that way from time to time. Shouldn't we begin to express in word and deed an outgoing, unselfed interest in those with whom we come in contact in our daily rounds? On the street, in the marketplace, in the schoolroom, in the office, at the gas station, in the professions— everywhere.

The Bible tells us of God, "In him we live, and move, and have our being."^{Acts 17:28} Is it possible that we isolate ourselves through ignorance of God and of our spiritual selfhood? In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Man is not absorbed in Deity, and man cannot lose his individuality, for he reflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, solitary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all substance."^{Science and Health, p. 259.} This relates to every one of us on the whole face of the globe. Many have found that a study of this textbook and the living of what it contains have opened for them a larger sense of love.

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