"IMMORTAL memory"

By Robert J. Rowan

We frequently hear that memory loss is associated with advancing years, that growing older can produce diminishing functions. But, as you know, you shouldn't believe everything you hear. And this is definitely a point worth disbelieving.

People can challenge the notion that man can be limited at any age by understanding each individual's true identity as God's perfect image, or reflection. Since God is perfect and eternal, His reflection, man, is undiminished as well. The writer of Ecclesiastes assures us, "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it" (3:14).

What would make age incapacitating is the accumulation not of years but of false, destructive beliefs about ourselves. Yet we can shed this accumulation of false beliefs by understanding that they have no basis in Truth. Believing, for example, that age causes one's memory to deteriorate would give time the prerogatives of God—namely, power and the ability to create, or cause, an effect. But time is not God. God is divine Mind, whose faculties are eternal. They cannot deteriorate with age, be blunted by use, or become lost through the apathy of an unthinking existence.

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