Article December 6, 1993 Issue

Never separated from Love

Loneliness at Christmas can be lifted when we realize that infinite, divine Love is always with us.

Rita Hayes Hornbeak

On the Sunday before Christmas I went to church feeling heavy-hearted. A dear friend's daughter had passed on just a few days before, and my son had gone to another state to comfort her. I felt sad because this friend would be without her child and also because I would be without one of my children at Christmastime.

As I prayed to overcome this sadness, I realized that God is infinite Spirit, and so He is always with us. He is divine Love, our true Father-Mother, never unloving.

These basic Biblical truths reminded me that no one can actually be cut off from God's infinite love. There is never any real separation from good—even though we may need to pray earnestly to prove this for ourselves. Spirit and its idea cannot be fragmented; man is inseparable from his Maker. He can never be outside of God's loving, beneficent care and goodness. Mrs. Eddy explains this point in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. She writes, "Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot be lost nor separated from its divine Principle" (p. 303).

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