Article July 13, 1987 Issue

A home filled with light

Home. The word calls up feelings of comfort, tenderness, and safety. Can we have this sense of home wherever we are?

Lynn A. Gray Jackson

Walking out of a restaurant one evening, I was surprised to hear the sound of birds' singing, because it was dark outside except for the sidewalk lighting. As I looked around, I found that the birds weren't in the trees or bushes. They had built their nest within the structure of the streetlights, and because of where they had chosen to build their home, they were constantly in the light.

Are there times when our home could be brighter? Or when we are away from home and yearn for its brightness and joy? There is always the opportunity to build our mental home, our consciousness, in the light. By establishing the true sense of home—heavenly harmony—in thought, we can overcome sadness, discomfort, or sorrow wherever we are. We can learn to feel the Mother-love and Father-love of God everywhere.

It is probably evident that if we are sad, angry, or fearful, we will take these feelings with us, and we can be unhappy even in the best of circumstances. But we need to recognize the more important corollary: If, through prayer, we consciously change our inharmonious thinking and living, we will bring into our experience more love, joy, and peace. Christian Science teaches that true prayer changes the basis of our thought and life from mortality—with its fears, willfulness, and loneliness—to spirituality. If the basis of our thought and action is mortality, we are vulnerable to unhappiness and fear, but as we increasingly make God's law our basis, we will find His presence to be our joy and comfort. To move in this direction calls for a better understanding of man's oneness with God, our inseparable relation to Him.

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