Editorial December 7, 1992 Issue

Overcoming loss

Richard C. Bergenheim

"I don't know if I will ever get over missing him," she said quietly. "We were married for a long time before he passed on. Life certainly does go on, and I've done all right over the past few years. But I do miss him so."

People respond to loss in many ways. Some never seem to recover. Others feel angry or deserted. Others cope quickly and forge ahead. You may know some who just constantly relive the past. However one responds, loss is not usually a topic one wants to talk about, though it will pop up at times in a late evening chat with a longtime friend or on an airplane ride with a total stranger.

The only sure remedy for the feelings of loss is spiritual progress. Why is this so? Spiritual progress prevents us from becoming frozen in time; it lets us experience the continuity of good. Divine Science, or the Comforter, delivers us from bondage to grief. It is the nature of the Comforter to meet us at our point of need. The Comforter, as Christ Jesus explained, is a teacher. It causes us to discover or to awaken to the spiritual idea of life. It gives us new views of our identity. The Comforter enables us to see the action of divine power in our lives. It reveals the fact of Immanuel, that is, "God with us." In her chapter "Marriage" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love." Isn't this what our heart truly longs for?

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