Article February 13, 1995 Issue

Married? Single? Either way you are complete

Sarah Chapman Eastman

You've always been complete. You didn't become complete on your wedding day if you are married, nor are you missing a masculine or feminine half if you are single. As the child of God, you include the qualities of both manhood and womanhood. Wholeness is not something you acquire or something you can lose.

We find authority for our completeness in Genesis, chapter 1. There we read that God created man in His own image, male and female, with dominion. There is no mention of a waiting period before man becomes complete. Neither is there noted a time when man becomes incomplete, or desolate. In absolute fact, there is never a moment when you—that is, the spiritual offspring of God—will be more complete, more whole, than you are right now. In reality, there was never a time when you were more perfect than you are this very moment.

No one was more sure of his completeness than Christ Jesus. His understanding of his oneness with the Father permeates his teachings and was the basis of his healing work. His statement "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30) describes a unity that needs no other being to complete it, to bring satisfaction or fulfillment. From Jesus' teachings we learn that as the Father-Mother is complete, so is the reflection, man, complete. As we draw closer to God and gain a deeper understanding of our oneness with Him, with divine Love, it's inevitable that we'll come to feel our God-given completeness.

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